Michael W. Floyd, Knexus Research Corporation


	Michael W. Floyd
	Ph.D. (Electrical and Computer Engineering) from Carleton University, 2013 M.A.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from Carleton University, 2009 B. Eng. (Computer Systems Engineering) from Carleton University, 2006
	Email: mfloyd {at} sce [dot] carleton {dot} ca Position: Lead Artificial Intelligence Scientist @ Knexus Research Corporation Location: National Harbor, Maryland, USA

Michael W. Floyd I have been at Knexus Research Corporation since 2013. I primarily collaborate with David Aha and others at the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

My recent research has focused on adaptive autonomy and how agents/robots can be integrated into human-robot (or human-agent) teams. More specifically, I have examined methods by which agents can (1) reason over and adapt their goals; (2) measure their teammates' trust (and adapt their behavior accordingly); (3) explain their behavior; and (4) observe their teammates' actions to infer team goals.

Research Interests:

Artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Goal reasoning
Case-based reasoning
Human-robot teams
Rebel agents
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)
Learning by observation/learning by demonstration/imitation learning
Autonomous robots
Adaptive agents
Human-robot trust
Deep learning
Novel object detection

Press:

Naval Research Laboratory (February 2017): NRL's UAV `Wingman' Technology Used in Air Combat Trials (PDF)