Learning Never Exhausts the AI with Dr. Brendan Englot

Navy divers regularly enter treacherous waters, not to save their fellow Americans, but to clean the ships hull. This is one of an infinite number of life endangering jobs that machines may be well suited for. Can machines be taught these complicated tasks and should we allow them to replace humans? Join Dr. Brendon Englot and I for the discussion on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

https://faculty.stevens.edu/benglot

Dr. Brendan Englot is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2014. Brendan has fifteen years of experience developing and deploying mobile robots and autonomous navigation algorithms via land, air and sea. At Stevens, he is the founder and director of the Robust Field Autonomy Lab, which develops robust autonomous navigation solutions for mobile robots operating in harsh and unstructured environments. His research uses artificial intelligence to improve the situational awareness of mobile robots operating in degraded conditions, and to enable intelligent robot decision-making under uncertainty. Brendan received S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007, 2009 and 2012, respectively. At MIT, he studied motion planning for surveillance and inspection applications, deploying his algorithms on an underwater robot to inspect Navy and Coast Guard ships. During 2012-2014, Brendan was with United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA, where he was a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory and a technical contributor to the Sikorsky Autonomous Research Aircraft. Brendan received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2017, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2020, and in 2018 he was appointed the Geoffrey S. Inman Endowed Junior Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Brendan also serves as Interim Director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI).