Sarkis Serge Mikaelian is a Flight Software and Avionics Engineer at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC). He currently leads the High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) development for a research flight controls system for an advanced airborne system testbed working. He has previously developed Safety-Critical and ground support software for the Resilient Autonomy and X-57 programs at AFRC and worked as an Artificial Intelligence researcher for Intelligent Contingency Management at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). Sarkis received a B.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge, and a Master’s in Systems Architecting & Engineering from the University of Southern California. He developed his expertise at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) working as a Flight Software Integration and Test Engineer, and Avionics Operations engineer in the Advanced Flight Software group for the Europa Clipper mission. In addition to these roles, he contributed as a Flight Systems Engineer, developing flight software (FSW) requirements for the Mars Sample Return mission, and conducting verification and validating the CADRE autonomous lunar surface exploration rovers at JPL.