About
As a member of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence, I contribute to various U.S. Department of Defense projects. My work revolves around developing autonomy and AI systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. These systems play a crucial role in aiding soldiers and identifying explosive hazards and other potential threats.
My research is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision. For over a decade, I have been dedicated to improving Explosive Hazard Detection for the U.S. Army through the University of Missouri. One of my key areas of focus is linguistic explainable AI. Currently, I am working on developing a Fuzzy Linguistic Summary toolkit that will be open source.
On a personal note, I am happily married to the love of my life, Lauren Alvey!
Experience
At the University of Missouri, I research and develop systems for explosive hazard detection and drone autonomy. I’ve developed explainable linguistic summaries to assess performance of black-box models such as LLMs and object detectors. I also help manage data for the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and the MINDUL lab, mentoring students.
Under the guidance of Dr. Derek T. Anderson, I earned my Ph.D. while working full-time at Mizzou. I balanced research, publications, and grants, focusing on advanced models for explosive hazard detection and drone autonomy.
I joined during the COVID-19 pandemic and worked on projects involving object detection, segmentation, autonomous navigation, and more. I also served as a teaching assistant for Neural Networks.
At Shelter Insurance, I worked on Claims Processing Systems using Java, SpringBoot, SQL, and more. I also mentored at Hack Mizzou 2019.
I supported intensive care and trauma units at the University of Missouri Hospital by managing medication inventory and logistics.
Worked on buried explosive detection using GPR under Dr. Dominic K.C. Ho. Taught lab sessions for signal processing.
At the Center for Geospatial Intelligence, I developed the FOMIACE detection algorithm and contributed to projects in agriculture, medical imaging, and more.
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