Kevin Martin is a scientist at HRL Laboratories with over 35 years of experience in systems and software development in military, aerospace, and automotive technologies and systems. His current research and development responsibilities involve programs in the area of autonomous vehicles, in the domains of both automotive and commercial/military aircraft. As part of these programs Mr. Martin is also leading efforts to modernize the software development paradigms and tools which are used internally. In addition to his research project software development and management roles, Mr. Martin also manages a state-of-the-art data center supporting both software development operations (e.g. Jenkins, Phabricator, NextCloud, Kubernetes, Docker Swarms, GPU/TensorFlow, etc.) and multi-petabyte big data analytics (e.g. Hadoop/HDFS, Spark, Scala, Mongodb, etc.) for intelligence exploitation research using social media and big data sources (e.g. Twitter, Tumblr, Newsgator, Wordpress, Bloomberg, manufacturer maintenance and diagnostics logs, etc.) During his past 25 years at HRL, Mr. Martin has worked numerous internal sponsored R&D efforts with Boeing, GM, Raytheon, and Hughes Aircraft Company. His participation in government and military contract research and development includes programs in the areas of robotics, cognitive systems, and cyber-security, including DARPA programs such as Pheromone Robots, Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, and High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems. Prior to his transfer to HRL, Mr. Martin held software development section head roles at Hughes Training and Hughes Radar Systems Groups. While there he lead teams working on the development of voxel-based scene generation and numerous research level human-in-the-loop simulators, including F18 Weapons Tactics Trainers, Army Lightweight Helicopter Experimental (LHX); GM Heads-Up Display (HUD), infra-red displays, driver eye-tracking and alertness detection, adaptive cruise control prototypes; and On-Star natural language voice navigation prototypes. Mr. Martin also oversaw the construction and managed the operation of a large aerial reconnaissance computing SCIF during Operation Desert Storm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Martin held systems and software engineering leadership posts in numerous Hughes Aircraft Company operations divisions, including Missile Systems, Radar Systems, Ground Systems, and Training and Simulation Systems. While at Hughes, Martin participated in several corporate strategic planning committees and action groups, including Future Warfare Systems Planning, and the Corporate Software Engineering CMU-SEI Capability Maturity Model self-assessment team. Mr. Martin has over a dozen patents and numerous papers in the fields of brain-machine interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, and human-robot collaboration. Upon undergraduate graduation, Mr. Martin was chosen to participate in a 2-year Hughes Rotation Program, and was a recipient of two Hughes Fellowships for Masters and Engineer degrees. He has dual Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from Lawrence Institute of Technology in Michigan, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC), and an Engineers Degree in Intelligent and Robotic Systems from USC.
