Speakers
Missy Cummings
Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots. She is a Professor in the George Mason University Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments. She is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow, and recently served as the senior safety advisor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Her research interests include embedded artificial intelligence in safety-critical systems, assured autonomy, human-systems engineering, and the ethical and social impact of technology.
Fuxin Li
Fuxin Li is currently an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. Before that, he has held research positions in University of Bonn and Georgia Institute of Technology. He had obtained a Ph.D. degree in the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He has won an NSF CAREER award, an Amazon Research Award, (co-)won the PASCAL VOC semantic segmentation challenges from 2009-2012, and led a team to the 4th place finish in the DAVIS Video Segmentation challenge 2017. He has published more than 70 papers in computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing. His main research interests are 3D point cloud deep networks, human understanding of deep learning, video object segmentation and uncertainty estimation in deep learning.
Matt Turek
Dr. Matt Turek is the deputy office director for the Defense Advanced Research Agency’s (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O), where he provides technical leadership and works with program managers to envision, create, and transition capabilities that ensure enduring information advantage for the United States and its allies. Previously, Turek served as I2O’s acting deputy director and as a program manager for AI-related programs, including Explainable AI, Machine Common Sense, Media Forensics, and Semantic Forensics. He joined DARPA from Kitware, Inc., where he led a team developing computer vision technologies. Prior to that role, he was at GE Global Research conducting research in medical imaging and industrial inspection.