Sponsor: Foothill Section Affinity Group, WIE
Foothill Section Affinity Group, CN
San Diego Section
Speaker: Kathleen A. Kramer

Meeting Date: 18 Oct 2022
Time: 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM
Cost:
Reservations: IEEE

Summary:
In the aviation context, AI doing things conventionally performed by humans could
have applied to even older dynamics-based implementations of an autopilot but now
more implies judgement reserved in past to human pilot, and clearly applies to
unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The description of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has
continually been evolving over past few decades in correlation with the advancement
in technology itself. The ingress into numerous spheres of life has been aided by
progress in some of the supporting technologies, namely, high-powered parallel
processing, big data analysis and cloud computing, deep learning algorithms. There
is a real challenge to aviation safety certification to identify and verify all possible
safety-critical conditions, particularly for critical avionics systems, including those
providing communication and navigation.

Bio: Kathleen A. Kramer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San
Diego. A Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society,
she maintains an active research agenda in the areas of multisensor data fusion,
navigation, and cyber security in aerospace systems, and leads the AESS technical
panel on Cyber Security. In addition to academic positions, she has also been a
Member of Technical Staff at several companies, including ViaSat, Hewlett Packard,
and Bell Communications Research. She is a leader in engineering accreditation
activities for IEEE with ABET and has contributed to several recent advances in the
criteria, impacting university education in 41 countries. She received the B.S. degree
in electrical engineering with a second major in physics from Loyola Marymount
University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the
California Institute of Technology.