Jeffrey Byrne is a senior research engineer at Scientific Systems Company Inc. (SSCI) in Woburn MA, working in the areas of Computer Vision and Robotics. He has a BS (1996) and MS (1997) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Carnegie Mellon University, and he is also affiliated with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania under an NDSEG fellowship . Prior to joining SSCI, Mr. Byrne worked as a consultant to Carnegie Mellon University on the Micro Vision Engine hardware platform for micro air vehicles (MAV), and as a research staff member in the CMU Robotics Institute working on image segmentation and classification, high-speed vision based inspection, real time vision for helicopter perception and stereo vision based autonomous mobile robot navigation. He also worked as a engineering manager in an embedded hardware start-up company in Silicon Valley. He is a US Citizen and has a Secret level clearance.