Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu 

Ga Achievers: We introduce you to Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu – The group lead and Robotics Engineer at the NASA-Jet propulsion Laboratory. Dr Trebi-Ollennu was awarded the prestigious NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal in 2008 for his work.

His current research at JPL focuses on Planetary Rovers, Manipulation, Multiple Mobile Robots (Planetary Outpost), Reconfigurable Robots and Man-machine Interaction. Dr. Trebi-Ollennu’s research has resulted in more than 95 publications. He currently works on the InSight Mission as an Instrument Deployment Systems Engineer and MSL (Curiosity Rover) a Robotic Arm Systems Engineer.

By Naa Adjeley Gbɔjɔɔ