Charles Elachi
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Charles Elachi (Arabic :شارل عشي) is the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in Pasadena, California, since May 1, 2001. He graduated from the Grenoble Polytechnic Institute in 1968. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D in electrical sciences from the California Institute of Technology of which he is now the vice president. He later received an MBA from USC (1978) and an M.S. degree in geology from UCLA (1983). At Caltech, he is also a professor of electrical engineering and planetary science.
Dr. Elachi was born April 18, 1947 in Lebanon.
He is a fellow of IEEE and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics.
