Kevin Murphy
Chief Science Data Officer at NASA
Kevin Murphy is the Chief Science Data Officer for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. In this capacity, he works across five divisions to advance the state of the art in cloud computing, machine learning, data management and analysis platforms for NASA’s scientific data, and advocates for open science for all of NASA.
Before assuming his current role, Mr. Murphy served as the Program Executive for Earth Science Data Systems programs and the System Architect for EOSDIS, one of the largest repositories of Earth observing data on the planet. He managed the production and distribution of data from NASA’s fleet of over 20 Earth-Observing satellites and instruments including near real-time science data production systems, search engines, scientific data visualization system, evaluation of commercial data, and earthdata.nasa.gov.
Mr. Murphy has received numerous awards, including the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement for Engineering, Charles S. Falkenberg Award, Fed 100, among others.
