Dr. Kendra Lang

Vice President of Mission Autonomy. Kendra joined BlackVe as Vice President of Mission Autonomy in June of 2024. She brings a commitment to developing and deploying advanced technology, in particular artificial intelligence and autonomy, to the space domain. This has been her objective throughout her career, where she has built out highly technical teams to advance state of the art for mission-level autonomy. Prior to joining BlackVe she held a director-level position at Verus Research, founding and then running their space program. She was also a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, designing advanced control and verification algorithms. She holds a PhD in Engineering and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of New Mexico, and a B.S. in Mathematics from McGill University.