Meera Day Towler, P.E., is a program manager for space robotics in the Intelligent Systems Division at Southwest Research Institute. She currently leads an initiative she built to transition advanced industrial robotics capabilities to meet the current and future needs of the space industry, both in orbit and on the ground.

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 and writing proposals for projects of all sizes, and she manages relationships with both current and potential clients. She has a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, as well as two undergraduate degrees (Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics), all from Southern Methodist University. Her Master’s research focused on a novel approach to early-stage surge detection in centrifugal compressors. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas with a specialization in Control Systems.