Meera Day Towler, P.E., is a program manager at Southwest Research Institute, where she coordinates space-related research for the Intelligent Systems Division. She currently leads an initiative she built from the ground up to transition advanced terrestrial robotics capabilities to meet the current and future needs of the space industry, both in orbit and on other planets. With a background in controls engineering, she has worked on numerous technical research and development projects across robotics and turbomachinery. She has extensive experience managing teams, developing strategy, and writing proposals for projects of all sizes, and she manages relationships with both current and potential clients.