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Irvine, California, Us

Irvine, California, Us

DZYNE Technologies creates innovative, intelligent, autonomous aircraft.http://www.dzynetech.com/

Senior technology professional with comprehensive expertise ranging from computer vision, artificial intelligence, and video understanding to autonomous vehicles and systems. Consulting and serving on panels and boards for the application of these technologies to defense, intelligence, and commercial enterprises. Investor and advisor to start-up companies in artificial intelligence, computer vision and smart sensing technologies.

Orienteering USA is a national non-profit organization recognized by the International Orienteering Federation as the national governing body for the sport of orienteering. Its mission is to increase participation, teach navigation skills, and promote better appreciation of the environment, while creating a foundation for healthy competition for all age groups.

Led the division in the development of advanced image and video understanding technologies to meet defense and intelligence needs. Performed analysis of airborne and satellite imagery, and developed products for exploiting UAV imagery.

Arlington, Va, Us

Initiated and managed programs such as VIVID, which developed an automated targeting system using airborne video from unmanned air vehicles; Combat Zones That See, which automated the analysis of video from a large network of ground-based cameras to track individual vehicles across an urban battlefield; and UrbanScape, which provided automated capture and holographic display of 3D models of urban areas. Served as Deputy Director of DARPA’s Grand Challenge for Autonomous Ground Vehicles, the world’s first race for self-driving cars and trucks.

Led a product development team of 27 engineers and video scientists to become a leading supplier of intelligent video surveillance systems. Developed world’s first object-based video compression engine along with novel video editing and video surveillance products.

Arlington, Va, Us

Led nationwide program of basic research in image understanding techniques to enable increased battlefield awareness. Refocused portfolio of key technologies to emphasize video surveillance, image exploitation, and 3D model construction. Initiated a new program on Airborne Video Surveillance for unmanned aircraft.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Designed and implemented computer vision, robotic and evidential reasoning systems.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Served as an intelligence officer in the US Army for 14 years on active duty and reserves in both tactical and strategic assignments.

Phd, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)

Bs And Ms, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science