Mike Shafto

Michael G. Shafto, known as Mike, is a researcher at NASA Ames Research Center whose papers deal with how people and automated systems work together.^2,3,4 He chaired the team that wrote NASA's November 2010 draft roadmap for modelling, simulation, information technology and processing, Technology Area 11, whose members included Ed Glaessgen.¹

His later work at Ames includes a 2013 report, with William Clancey and others, on simulating the work practices of pilots and air traffic controllers to test aviation safety, using the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision as its case.² A companion paper argued for adding automated techniques such as model checking to simulation when judging how people and automation interact in the next generation of US air traffic control.³ He was also an author of a 2009 paper on a multiagent software system running in NASA's mission control for the International Space Station.⁴

The wiki's history of the digital twin quotes the roadmap's definition of a NASA digital twin.