Summit Speaker

Dr. Jonathon Smereka is the Ground Vehicle Robotics (GVR) Senior Technical Expert for research at the U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC, formerly TARDEC) in Warren, Michigan. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016 and B.Sc. Eng. degrees in Computer Engineer, Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Mathematics from the University of Michigan at Dearborn in 2009. He began his career with the U.S. Army TARDEC in 2007 as a Co-Op intern with the High Performance Computing (HPC) team, left for graduate school in 2010, and then rejoined again in 2016 through the DoD Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Fellowship. He has worked in research and development of artificial intelligence, machine learning, image and signal processing, and computer vision with respect to biometrics, automated target recognition (ATR), and ground vehicle autonomy.