Experience
Dr. Keith Chin holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from various universities. The MS work was on experimental electrochemistry at UCLA but his PhD work at USC emphasized computational physics of solid-state materials combining phenomenological electrochemistry and molecular physics modeling. As a technologist at JPL, his primary goal is to develop new and innovating electrochemical technologies to enable new or more challenging NASA flight programs. Therefore, the bulk of his research interests focus on the development and the infusion of energy storage, energy generation, and in-situ electrochemical instrumentation (development, modeling, and prototyping) technologies for a broad range of autonomous spacecraft systems from Cubesats to Flagship missions. Within the past 15 years, Dr. Chin also supported other flight projects such as Grace (2002), MER (2003), Deep Impact (2005), Phoenix (2007), and MSL (2011) as a battery and/or power subsystem engineer as well as an occasional software developer and systems engineer/modeler. He was the recipient of numerous NASA Awards including SEAC4RS Group Achievement Award (2014), MSL Mission System Development Team Award (2013), and Li-Ion Battery Tech Dev. Team Award (2004).