{"id":116917,"date":"2020-12-10T04:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/melodie-yashar-co-founder-of-space-exploration-architecture-search"},"modified":"2020-12-10T04:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T12:22:44","slug":"melodie-yashar-co-founder-of-space-exploration-architecture-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/melodie-yashar-co-founder-of-space-exploration-architecture-search","title":{"rendered":"Melodie Yashar \u2014 Co-Founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rlgNdOkPwpo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019re joined by Melodie Yashar \u2014 Designer, Researcher, Technologist, co-founder of the firm Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), Senior Research Associate with San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames Research Center, and an Associate Researcher within the UC Davis Center for Human\/Robotics\/Vehicle Integration and Performance (HRVIP). She also teaches undergraduate and graduate design at Art Center College of Design and is a 2019\u20132020 Future Space Leaders Fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Melodie\u2019s current work focuses on the relationship of advanced software &amp; hardware systems for spaceflight and maintains ongoing research interests in the design of augmented environments, human-machine interaction, human performance studies, and space technology development.<\/p>\n<p>As an undergraduate Melodie studied at UC Berkeley and at Art Center, and she holds graduate degrees in architecture and human-computer interaction with an emphasis in robotics from Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>She also served as a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute, as a researcher within Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Morphing Matter Lab and Design Director of Sonic Platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Having come from an interdisciplinary background, Melodie appreciates those who see research and design as a confluence of different fields\u2014allowing problem solving to become a more thoroughly collaborative exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re joined by Melodie Yashar \u2014 Designer, Researcher, Technologist, co-founder of the firm Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), Senior Research Associate with San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames Research Center, and an Associate Researcher within the UC Davis Center for Human\/Robotics\/Vehicle Integration and Performance (HRVIP). She also teaches undergraduate and graduate design [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}