I'm currently a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology. My PhD will be in Robotics with emphasis in human-robot interaction, artificial intelligence, and controls.

My thesis advisor is Dr. Ayanna Howard. With her, I am working on developing robots to assist in the orderly evacuation of buildings during an emergency.

I work with Dr. Mick West at the Georgia Tech Research Institute on the Yellowfin autonomous underwater robot. I also do some work with micro autonomous vehicles and mission managers.

Previously, I attended Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla, UMR) where I received a Masters in Computer Engineering and two Bachelors degrees (Computer Engineering and Physics).

The picture is of my wife and me. We were married on November 21, 2009.

I've been involved in robotics since I joined the S&T Robotics Competition Team the second semester of my freshmen year. We compete annually in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). This competition requires the team to design and build a medium-sized robot to autonomously traverse an outdoor obstacle course. Obstacles normally consist of colored barrels, construction netting, white lines and trees. The team uses stereovision cameras as the primary obstacle detection sensor.

Most recently, I worked for Dr. Wunsch in the S&T Applied Computational Intelligence Lab. Through the lab, I was sent to Boeing Phantomworks for two summers to work on an autonomous vehicle swarm. In Spring 2010 I completed my thesis project on an adaptive user interface tools to help control the swarm.

I've also started a company called Rolla Engineered Solutions, LLC with Ryanne Dolan. We develop software solutions for clients in our area. We're hoping to get some contracts in automated systems but we are currently working on some information technology projects. We won the University of Missouri Entrepreneur of the year award in 2007 and our products have placed in numerous other competitions such as Idea2Product and IdeaBounce.