Bobak Ferdowsi

Bobak Ferdowsi is an American systems engineer at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the CassiniHuygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity missions.

Ferdowsi was born November 7, 1979, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is of Persian descent his father immigrated to the United States from Iran. His parents met in college. Soon after birth he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he stayed until age 11, then moved to Tokyo in 1991, where he attended the American School in Japan, graduating in 1997.

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