Todd Jochem, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Gibsonia, PA, US

Gibsonia, PA, US

Along with my son, Ben Jochem (Benjo), I (The Grand Tonto) host a weekly Crypto-centric YouTube show and Podcast called Internet Capital. (internetcapital.xyz) We talk about the major events of the week in the industry and where things are heading. Ben provides the deep analysis and I provide commentary from the common man, reasonable person perspective..

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Member of the Advisory Board with special personal emphasis on Research, Innovation, and Strategic Planning

In this role, I help technology oriented organizations identify markets and mature unmanned vehicle technologies to support customer requirements in those markets. Primarily, I work with companies involved in the DoD and government contracting space looking to win R&D and procurement business. I also have served as an expert witness in automated vehicle.

Mars, Pennsylvania, United States

I develop the offensive strategy based on best-in-practices schemes, team talent, and opponent defenses. I coach coaches in technique and personally handle coaching the Varsity QB’s. I develop weekly practice plans, game scouting reports, and game plans, as well as call the offense plays during games.

Gibsonia, PA

I began my coaching career in 2007 in the Pine-Richland Youth Football program. After moving to the school program in 2011, I worked with middle school through varsity quarterbacks on fundamentals and techniques, as well as with the offensive coaching staff to build the structure and concepts of Pine-Richland’s record setting offense. P-R’s emergence as a.

My role at Skeyes was to provide corporate stability and focus during a time in which existing company leadership had to focus on signifcant external issues. My goal was to continue to incrementally build a sustainable company around an extremely strong unmanned systems/sensor technology base. This was accomplished during my short time at SkEyes as I was.

My role was to help lead the strategic growth of Applied Perception and Foster-Miller's software and system related UxV activities with emphasis on developing open, supportable, high capability software components and tools.

I founded and grew the company from one part time employees to 16 full-time engineers, including the largest concentration of CMU Robotics Ph.D. in any organization outside of CMU itself. I led the technical, sales, and business growth which culminated in an profitable sale to Foster-Miller, Inc., in May 2007.

Along with my Ph.D. thesis advisor, I co-founded AssistWare Technology in 1995 and helped grow the company from a part time endeavor into the technology provider of a commercially available, state-of-the-art vision-based drowsy driver warning system called SafeTRAC. AssistWare’s growth culminated in May of 2006 with its profitable sale to Cognex.

I was the Project Leader for CMU's vehicle and technology development efforts for the 1997 National Automated Highway System Consortium Proof of Technical Feasibility Demonstration. I was responsible for the development of five computer controlled vehicles that eventually gave over 1500 passengers rides, logging over 10,000 miles of autonomous operation..

I was temporarily in this position until I transitioned to the Systems Scientist position listed above. My actual responsibilities didn't change.

I worked in Professor Takeo Kanade's Vision and Autonomous System Center for advisors Chuck Thorpe and Dean Pomerleau. My research focussed on using active vision and image resampling techniques to provide additional capabilities such as intersection detection and navigation, lane changing, and obstacle avoidance to high speed unmanned passenger vehicles.

Ph.D., Robotics

Activities and Societies: Allen Newall Award for Research Excellence Award WinnerDeveloped unmanned vehicle technologies for.

B.S., Electronics And Computer Technology

Activities and Societies: Four Year Varsity Football Letterwinner Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity