Marc Ilgen: Founder
President, Chief Scientist

Marc Ilgen founded West of Pluto Software in October, 2001. Prior to this, he spent 8 years as Director of Exploratory Research and Development at HNC Software, where he led Government funded research efforts in intelligent information and retrieval, image understanding, intelligent agents, bioinformatics, and pattern recognition. He joined HNC after spending 8 years in the aerospace industry (TRW and The Aerospace Corporation) where he designed guidance and control systems for a variety of air and space vehicles. In 1993 he was a lecturer at UCLA, where he taught Orbital Mechanics and Astronautics. He holds a B.S. in Physics (Haverford, 1983), an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering (UCLA, 1986) and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (UCLA, 1992).

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