Robert Karban

Senior Systems Architect, Jet Propulsion Lab

Robert Karban is a Senior Systems Architect at the Jet Propulsion lab in the Systems Engineering and Formulation Division. Robert works in the domain of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) as the task lead on providing a Model Based Engineering Environment (MBEE) for projects and applies modeling in the Thirty Meter Telescope project. Prior to that, he developed control and instrumentation systems for large telescopes at the European Southern Observatory applying model driven technology, and for particle accelerators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Robert is a Challenge team lead of INCOSE's MBSE Initiative, an OMG certified SysML professional and an active member in OMG's revision task force for SysML. He started his career at Siemens Medical Devices developing System Software and received is M.S. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Vienna/Austria.