Kim Binsted

Dr. Kim Binsted is a Professor at the Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawaii born in Newton, New Jersey, USA.Dr. Binsted's life work explores artificial intelligence, human-computer interfaces, and long-duration human space exploration.

Dr. Binsted completed her B.Sc. in Physics at McGill University (1991). Her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence was received from the University of Edinburgh (1996). During her time at Edinburgh University she performed in what is now the Edinburgh Fringe's longest running improvised comedy troupe, The Improverts.

Between 1997 and 1999, Dr. Binsted worked as an Associate Researcher at Sony’s Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo, on human-computer interfaces.

During the summer of 2003 and 2004 Dr. Binsted was a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at Ames Research Center in the Neuroengineering Lab where she the worked on sub-vocal speech recognition technology. She held the post of Chief Scientist on the FMARS 2007 Long Duration Mission, which entailed a four-month Mars exploration analogue on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. On sabbatical during 2009 Dr. Binsted visited scientist at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to work on the CSA's planetary analogues program. From 2002 to 2014 she was a team member at the UH-NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Currently, Dr. Binsted is the principal investigator on HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation).