Aidan Obrien

Background

About Aidan Obrien

Aidan is the Head of Infrastructure & Analytics at Saber Astronautics, with a Mechatronic Engineering degree and a Masters of Space Operations from University of New South Wales, along with a Masters of Research in Health Informatics from Macquarie University specialising in machine learning, his passion is building reliable and secure autonomous systems. A decorated former serviceman, his experience in the Royal Australian Navy has led to him holding the secondary duty as company security officer. Aidan's work at Saber Astronautics over the last eight years has involved developing multiple machine learning algorithms involving space weather and radio signals, and is the primary technical lead of a team which architects and builds fault tolerant back-end server infrastructure for mission control requirements on two continents and national strategic missions. The server infrastructure stores, transfers and processes satellite data, space domain/situational awareness and environmental data in real time for data-driven decision making. He has nine years’ experience in applied machine learning including Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms for spacecraft design, and creating frameworks for rapid Bayesian inferencing.