Dr.Eugene Tu 

Center Director at NASA's Ames Research Center

Dr. Eugene L. Tu is the Center Director at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he leads a staff of civil servants and contractors in providing critical research and development support that makes NASA's and the nation’s aeronautics and space missions possible, including two of NASA's critical infrastructure assets: the consolidated arc jet testing complex and the Agency’s primary supercomputing facility. Dr. Tu earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988, and both his master's degree and doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 1990 and 1996, respectively. Dr. Tu began his career at NASA Ames as a research scientist conducting computational fluid dynamics research on the steady and unsteady aerodynamics of complex aircraft configurations. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Dr. Tu received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2000 and the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive in 2009.