PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jacqueline Le Moigne

Also known as Jacqueline J. Le Moigne, Jacqueline Le Moigne-Stewart

Jacqueline Le Moigne is a computer scientist who worked on computer vision, satellite imagery and artificial intelligence during a 35-year career at NASA, and she is now a visiting professor of computer science at the University of Miami. Trained in mathematics in Paris, she earned a computer science PhD at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1983 and worked on the first autonomous land vehicle in the 1980s. At NASA Goddard, her research on image registration led to the 2011 book Image Registration for Remote Sensing, and in November 2018 she chaired the NASA Goddard Workshop on Artificial Intelligence. In 2024, she took charge of a new NASA program for Earth System digital twins, and the IEEE named her to its 2025 class of Fellows for satellite image registration and intelligent space systems design.

Timeline

  1. 1980s

    From Paris to Maryland's vision lab

    She earns bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, followed by a computer science PhD in 1983 with a dissertation on biomedical imaging. In the 1980s, she works on the first autonomous land vehicle, and before joining NASA she is a research scientist with the Computer Vision Laboratory of the University of Maryland.

  2. 2009–2012

    Image registration at Goddard

    At NASA Goddard, she analyzes remote sensing data with a focus on image registration and becomes assistant chief for technology in the Software Engineering Division; from 2009 to 2012, she is also Goddard Center Associate for the Earth Science Technology Office's Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program. Her edited book Image Registration for Remote Sensing appears from Cambridge University Press in 2011. In 2012, she receives the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and the Goddard Information Science and Technology Award.

  3. 2010–2017

    Distributed spacecraft missions

    From 2010 to 2016, she helps develop NASA's Space Technology Roadmap for Technology Area 11, which covers modeling, simulation, information technology and processing. By 2017, she leads the Goddard Distributed Spacecraft Missions Initiative and is principal investigator on projects that build system architectures and trade space analysis tools for such missions. In September 2017, she gives a Goddard colloquium on autonomy for intelligent and collaborative constellations.

  4. November 2018

    Goddard's AI workshop

    In November 2018, she chairs the NASA Goddard Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, opening the meeting and chairing its "AI at NASA" panel. The program includes a keynote by DARPA's David Gunning on explainable artificial intelligence.

  5. 2024

    Advanced Modeling Technology program

    By May 2024, she manages the AIST program at NASA's Earth Science Technology Office, which focuses on technologies such as data analytics and artificial intelligence for Earth science. In 2024, she leads the office's Intelligent Systems Technology group and takes charge of its new Advanced Modeling Technology program, aimed at Earth System digital twins, and she selects Laura Rogers as the new AIST program manager.

  6. 2025

    Named an IEEE Fellow

    She is named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows for contributions to satellite image registration and intelligent space systems design.

  7. Since 2025

    Visiting professor at Miami

    After a 35-year career at NASA, she joins the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences in 2025 as a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science. There she works on a digital twin of Earth with Yelena Yesha of the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing. In March 2026, she gives a keynote on AI and technology trends at the Smart Cities MIAMI conference.

  1. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 53% of people in our data with a known employment countryOur estimates of where AI careers are concentrated now and how countries’ shares of dated positions changed over time.
  3. 46% of living people in our data with known birth and employment countries work outside their birth countryOur estimate of cross-border careers in AI, from country of birth and the country of each current organization.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionOur estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

Sources and credits

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  1. Jacqueline Le Moigne - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. AI pioneer from NASA joins University of Miami as visiting professor news.miami.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Dr. Jacqueline Le Moigne - NASA Science science.nasa.gov. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Jacqueline Le Moigne – Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series (Image Registration for Remote Sensing, 2012) istcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Jacqueline Le Moigne – Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series (Autonomy for Intelligent and Collaborative Constellations, 2017) istcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. NASA Goddard Workshop on Artificial Intelligence – Program asd.gsfc.nasa.gov. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Webinar WISP: From Blood Platelets Classification to Earth System Digital Twins: A Career in Computer Vision | IEEE Signal Processing Society signalprocessingsociety.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. ESTO announces Advanced Modeling Technology (AMT) program - NASA Earth Science and Technology Office esto.nasa.gov. Checked 19 October 2026.
  9. Distinguished Guest Speaker Jacqueline Le Moigne of NASA IST 10/29 – Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing idsc.miami.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  10. News - NASA Earth Science and Technology Office (2024) esto.nasa.gov. Checked 19 October 2026.
  11. Smart Cities MIAMI 2026 – Smart Cities MIAMI Conference smartcities.miami.edu. Checked 19 October 2026.