Research engineer and solutions architect with expertise in perception, cognition, signal processing, and AI. My interests include human and machine sensing and perception, robotics, trusted AI, and human-machine teaming. As a researcher, I like to question, hypothesize, analyze, understand, and explain. As an engineer, I enjoy applying, designing, synthesizing, building, and improving.My hard skills include: • Perception and cognition: multi-sensor fusion, detection, tracking, attention, memory, psychophysics • Human modeling: auditory, personality, trust • Signal processing: speech, image, and vibration processing, estimation, classification, cross-validation • Data science: curation, dimensionality reduction, feature extraction, analysis • AI and machine learning: transformers, CNNs, reinforcement learning, regression, random forests, explainable AI • Coding: Python, C, ROS, MATLAB, Unix, shell scripting • System architecture: design and modeling with UML using Enterprise ArchitectMy soft skills include: • Collaboration: point of contact for universities, industry, and government. Ran AI competitions • Conflict resolution: resolved disputes among companies and proposed recommendations • Project management: customer engagement, planning, budgeting, executing, drafting statements of work