NASA Tech Talks: Intelligent Medical Crew Agent (IMCA)

Name: NASA Tech Talks: Intelligent Medical Crew Agent (IMCA)
Start: 2025-06-26T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-26T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Ion

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Category: Aerospace, Founders & Startups, General Community

Free

Past Event

WHEN

Thursday

June 26, 2025

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm CDT

WHERE

Ion

4201 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002 + Google Map

what

We want HOU! Join us to discover NASA’s toughest tech challenges—and apply your skills and expertise to solve them.

Join us this month as we partner with Houston AI to discuss AI in Space. The Houston AI session will start at 4:00 PM and include a talk on “The Role of AI in Human Spaceflight” and a panel discussion featuring experts in the roles AI will play in the future of Human Space Exploration. RSVP for this portion of the session here.

We will segue into our NASA Tech Talk at 6:00 PM for a demonstration of a NASA developed Intelligent Medical Crew Agent (IMCA) aka “Doc-In-A-Box”. Led by Lui Wang, this project is aimed to accelerate the maturation and flight readiness of an AI-enabled intelligent First Aid Medical kit developed for Earth Independent Medical Operations. This kit combines three AI agents to assist medical and non-medical crewmembers in assessing, diagnosing, and treating ongoing or emergent medical conditions with local computing resources and no remote SME support.

Please join us after the talk for drinks and networking at Second Draught!

About the Speakers

Lui Wang is a Principal Technical Expert in the Advanced Software Technologies at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. As a pioneer in avionics design, he has developed electronic procedure systems that support human spaceflight. With a tenure at NASA since 1983, Lui holds multiple patents and has spearheaded numerous projects integrating automation and intelligent systems technologies across various human spaceflight programs, from the NASA Space Shuttle to Artemis Gateway program.

Montgomery B. Goforth has more than 40 years of experience as both Engineer and Manager in a variety of highly technical space and defense-related efforts. After working for a small defense contractor specializing in anti-submarine warfare, he joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 1990. He has held leadership positions in multiple JSC Directorates and Program Offices. In his current role as Assistant Director of the JSC Engineering Directorate, he has established a framework to better focus Engineering’s efforts towards Human Spaceflight technology and systems development consistent with JSC and Agency goals for exploration. He has used this framework to guide Engineering’s internal investments and external partnerships supporting Lunar and Mars Exploration. Mr. Goforth was born in East Texas, raised in Southern California and Arizona, and graduated from Rice University (BSME 1982, MSME 1987).

About NASA Tech Talks

In these presentations, occurring the fourth Thursdays of the month, Mr. Montgomery Goforth and other aerospace subject matter experts will discuss the technology development challenges faced by NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the surrounding Aerospace community in our ongoing efforts as the hub of human spaceflight. Presentations will focus on the ways in which these challenges, and the associated opportunities, can be leveraged by Houston’s innovation community. We will continue to identify potential space/terrestrial technologies of interest to Human Spaceflight. Past NASA Tech Talks have included topics such as:

From Space to Startup: Leveraging NASA Technology and Innovation to Propel Your Growing Enterprise
Disruptive Filter Technology for Spacecraft Water Treatment: The New Promise of Graphene
Lunar dust capture using novel multiplexed inertial filter
Lunar Passive Fuel Cell Technologies:
Microbes in Space

PARKING

Ion District Parking Garage

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Red Parking Lot

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Organizer Website

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