Carl Leake is a Robotics Technologist who works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2017 and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University in 2021. His research interests include flexible multibody dynamics, the theory of functional connections (TFC), and anything fun at the intersection of aerospace engineering and computer science.