Ash is a young entrepreneur leader in the Boston and MIT community. He is the Program Manager of Cambridge Public Internet for the City of Cambridge as well as a private consultant to cities, companies, and non-profits building ubiquitous wireless access.
Ash is a graduate of MIT in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering with Information Systems, where he learned program management and systems engineering. At MIT he led the development of the the Splinter robot, an autonomous mobile robot project with sixteen engineers and computer scientists, and played a key role in the development of the MoRETA rover, a concept for a new Mars rover with sixty six engineers involved in the project.
Ash recently won the Andrew Morsa Award for "ingenuity and initiative applying computers to the field of Aeronautics and Astronautics" from the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Ash and his partner, Barett Mitchell, received the award for their thesis research in walking robots. Ash and Barett, together with Dr. Andreas Hofmann, developed a model-based controller for quadruped robots in difficult terrain.
