Kai Goebel

Kai Goebel has spent his career advancing PHM research across academic, government, and industry settings, including UC Berkeley, Luleå University of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NASA, GE Corporate R&D, Palo Alto Research Center, and SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute). He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1996).

He has co-authored more than 400 publications and 24 patents on PHM, with contributions spanning prognostic performance metrics, uncertainty management, requirements flowdown, and physics-informed machine learning for prognostics. He is a co-founder of the PHM Society and continues to serve on its board of directors.

At NASA Ames Research Center, he founded the Prognostics Center of Excellence, where he led efforts to systematically collect run-to-failure datasets for aerospace components and make them openly available through the NASA data repository (including the now infamous CMAPPS data set) — work that has since supported PHM research across the global community. He currently serves as President of Fragum Global, LLC, a company exploring the formal aspects of resilience of industrial systems.

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