Primary Job Title Chief Scientist Primary Organization 
Universal
Location Nashville, Tennessee, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
Website www.universalrobotics.com
Alan is Co-founder and CTO of Universal Robotics Inc.
Alan is the principal architect of Neocortex. Alan is also an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he supervises research on a humanoid robot, ISAC, in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. He has over fifty publications and has secured research funding
in excess of $4 Million. Well regarded among his peers in robotics, he has been a member of the NASA Robonaut research team which includes scientists from USC, MIT, and UMass. His image processing lectures have been downloaded by over 100,000 engineers worldwide. His academic work has been in four different areas: signal and image processing, mathematical morphology, electromagnetic scattering, and sensory-guided robotics.
