Experience
Keith Billings is a materials and process engineer in JPL’s Electrochemical Research, Technology, & Engineering Group. He began his career at JPL in 2007 as an academic part-time employee, focused on high performance PEM fuel cell development for NASA under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Valdez. He has since expanded his focus to include the development of a number of power and energy storage technologies including lithium batteries, extreme temperature supercapacitors, solid state electrolytes, and regenerative fuel cells, as well as flight hardware testing. Keith holds B.S and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from California State Polytechnic University Pomona (2008) and the University of Southern California (2012), respectively. An engineer surrounded by chemists, Keith’s work has frequently involved establishing technological proof of concept from basic principles.