We are so pleased to announce Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, Principal Research Scientist and Manager, Center for Neural and Emergent Systems Information and System Sciences Lab at HRL Laboratories LLC in Malibu.

He is developing a novel approach inspired by brain science that can enable machines to perceive their world much like living systems capable of autonomous learning, by dynamically interacting with their environment. This capability will create machines with the gift of perception to experience their world in a manner that is absent in today’s programmable machines. Seeing our world is a skillful activity that mammalian species have learned to master over millions of years of evolution. Capturing the essence of that activity can help create next generation machines that can enrich and assist humans in their way of living.

Dr. Srinivasa’s primary research interests are in the areas of learning, perception, adaptive control and evolutionary dynamics.  He is currently the program manager for two DARPA projects, SyNAPSE and Physical Intelligence, which attempt to develop a theoretical foundation inspired by brain science and physics to engineer electronic systems that exhibit intelligence. In his 12 years at HRL he has designed and managed several projects for GM and Boeing solving real-world problems in the areas of sensing and control, winning numerous awards including the HRL Distinguished Inventor Award, GM Most Valuable Colleague Award and HRL Outstanding Team Award. He was a Beckman Fellow at the prestigious Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, where he was a member of Human Computer Intelligent Interaction group and worked in the areas of learning algorithms for robotics, manufacturing and computer vision. He has published 80 technical papers and holds 25 US patents. http://www.hrl.com/