How AIrTonomy can help researchers tackle the 1:100 problem of human-autonomy teaming

As part of the AIrTonomy workshop, we are hosting the following speakers, these talks are open to all Purdue faculty, and are encouraged to attend:

Sept 11 8:45 am, Burton Morgan Cafe: How AIrTonomy can help researchers tackle the 1:100 problem of human-autonomy teaming

Julia Allen, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Saab Inc. 

Bio: Dr. Julia Filiberti Allen serves as Chief Technology Officer for Saab, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the leading Swedish defense and security company with an enduring mission to help nations keep their people and society safe. As part of the Chief Strategy Office, she is focused on the introduction of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Autonomous Systems across Saab’s portfolio.  Dr. Allen has developed autonomy algorithms that have swam underwater and flown in space; her dissertation research in Explainable AI focused on increasing trust in and transparency of “black box” machine learning systems through neural network activation pattern analysis. Dr. Allen also served in technical leadership positions at BAE Systems FAST Labs, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and the U.S. Army National Guard.  She concurrently holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment with the Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  Dr. Allen is a graduate of the University of Maryland (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering), The Johns Hopkins University (M.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics), and Dickinson College (B.S., Mathematics).