Shawn Liang

Shawn Liang has extensive background in the development of particle instruments and remote sensing payloads, with experience in designing and developing commercial and spaceflight-qualified instrument electronics (power conditioning and data processing), front-end detector electronics, sensor electronics, custom ground support equipment, and individual analog, power, and mixed-signal components and subsystems. He also has experience developing and qualifying entire instruments and subsystems for a variety of civil and national security space applications. He has developed flight hardware for Van Allen Probes (Earth orbit), Juno (Jupiter), Parker Solar Probe (helio orbit), Solar Orbiter (ESA, helio orbit), Europa Clipper (Jupiter/Europa orbit), IMAP (heliophysics at L1), and a number of Department of Defense missions. Liang led efforts for tightly integrated instrument/payloads for CubeSats, suborbital, grant/R&D efforts, and short-term technology demonstrations. His expertise spans instrument concept development, particle physics simulation, instrument design, custom electronics, and testing and validation of flight hardware through in-orbit operations. He has led and worked on projects with high staffing, fiscal, and schedule constraints and has served on multiple review panels for flight instruments and NASA instrument proposals.