William Green spent 20 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where he directed teams responsible for processing images from NASA's planetary exploration programs, including Mars Pathfinder, Cassini, Galileo, Magellan, Voyager, Viking and the Mariner spacecraft. He was then appointed to be the Manager of the Spitzer Science Center and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he managed development, integration and test of the Science Operations System used to process infrared astrophysics data returned from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the Aviation Week and Space Technology Laurels Award for his work on the Mars Pathfinder mission. He is author of two textbooks on digital image processing. Since his retirement from Caltech, he has provided consulting services to several NASA missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Phoenix, Kepler and and WISE missions at JPL. He served as a member of the NASA WFIRST Independent Review Team in 2017, and is currently on review boards for the Coronagraph Instrument being developed by JPL for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope (formerly named WFIRST), and for the NEO (Near Earth Object) Surveyor mission, both planned for launch in the 2020’s. JPL is a federally funded research and development center managed by Caltech for NASA.

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