American aerospace engineer and civil servant (1964–)
Dava J. Newman
Newman in October 2023
13th Deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
In office May 15, 2015 – January 20, 2017
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Lori Garver
Succeeded by
James Morhard
Personal details
Born
1964 (age 59–60) Helena, Montana
Spouse
Guillermo Trotti
Alma mater
University of Notre Dame (BS, 1986) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (dual SM, 1989; PhD, 1992)
Dava J. Newman (born 1964) is an American aerospace engineer. She is the director of the MIT Media Lab[1][2] and a former deputy administrator of NASA.[3] Newman is the Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a faculty member in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and MIT's School of Engineering since 1993.
Newman earned her PhD in aerospace biomedical engineering, and Master of Science degrees in aerospace engineering and technology and policy all from MIT, and her Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame. She is a member of the faculty at the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. She formerly directed the Technology and Policy Program at MIT (2003–2015) and the MIT Portugal Program since 2011.
^"Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab". 22 December 2020.
^media.mit.edu
^Sharkey, Jim (May 19, 2015). "Dava Newman Starts Work as NASA's Deputy Administrator". Spaceflight Insider. Retrieved 19 May 2015.Archived 2023-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
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