To expand human capabilities in aerospace
I am a current aerospace engineering and business graduate student at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL.
I currently work in machine learning/artificial intelligence for the U.S. Navy, with plans to enter a doctoral program next fall to research aerospace robotics and advanced decision making, human-robot teaming, and bio-inspired learning systems.
My presentation at IAC2020: "Autonomous Spacecraft Attitude Using Deep Reinforcement Learning"
Paper
These are the fields I am currently working to study:
Robust space/defense systems
I think robots are prime candidates for human-dangerous environments, such as the deep ocean or deep space. Intelligent robotics and autonomous systems will soon influence all aspects of operations in space and defense.
The best-of-both-worlds of humans and machines
There are things machines currently do much better than humans, and there are things that humans currently do much better than machines. Optimizing the joint team of humans and robots will allow us to utilize the unique strengths of both.
Where neuroscience meets artificial intelligence
How do humans innately know to eat, sleep, fight/flight? How does a honeybee have such command of translational flight? The answers are in our own head, and building what we learn into aerospace systems will revolutionize discovery in the industry.
Computer systems that learn on their own
How do we build programs that learn like we do? Is our modern computer hardware the way? What about wetware? Are artificial neural networks the way? Probability distributions? Data mining? Translating learning into the three basic arithmetic operations will prove a challenging task.
I made a video detailing the best summer that I spent working in Denver in 2019.