Dana Ulery

Dana Lynn Ulery (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist and engineer known for her contributions to aerospace computing, software engineering, and computational mathematics. She is known as being a pioneer in using computers to solve huge science problems. Dana was the first female engineer hired at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL), where she worked on mission software supporting early lunar exploration during the Ranger program. Her career later expanded into research and development in government computing systems, numerical algorithms, and information technologies used in engineering and defense applications. Ulery's work includes research on symbolic and numerical algorithms for partial differential equations and software systems for statistical quality control, and she is widely recognized as an early pioneer for women in computer science and engineering.