My expertise spans artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, measurement science, standards, forensics, and governance, built over two decades of published international research across academia, multiple industries, law, government, and defense. My work spans every stage of research, from writing proposals and code and prototyping hardware, through to publishing, shaping policy, and leading the direction of US federal projects.

I started in Perth, Western Australia, with degrees in electronic engineering and computer science from Curtin, and a PhD in robotics, machine learning, and vision from UNSW. My life-saving work in robotics for emergency response and public safety has been internationally recognized, and helped drive the responsible adoption of intelligent response robots worldwide.

Since 2011 I have worked with NIST, developing over thirty standard test methods for intelligent response robots, methods that guided more than $200M in US government procurements and are now used worldwide. Along the way I helped turn abstract tasks into the test methods and competition procedures behind the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and I contributed the machine-perception expertise behind a patented robotic laser orthopedic surgery system.

Today I lead the development of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework profile for trustworthy AI in critical infrastructure. My mission, stated plainly: advance the safe, responsible, effective, appropriate, ethical, transparent, and defensible adoption of AI and intelligent systems. A theme runs through the work. Without trust, explainability, and measurement, over-hyped AI risks collapsing into another "AI winter," and rigorous, standardized evaluation is the remedy.

In short, my focus is trusted autonomous systems, standard performance tests for robots, explainable AI, reaching the next generation, and averting the next AI winter. I am always looking for opportunities to help people and organizations responsibly develop, adopt, operationalize, evaluate, and risk-manage cutting-edge technologies to advance humanity.