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David Martinez


David R. Martinez is Laboratory Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT Lead Instructor. His emphasis is on artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and technical leadership. Prior to this appointment, he was Associate Division Head, and a member of the Laboratory's Steering Committee.

Biography

David R. Martinez is Laboratory Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT Lead Instructor. His emphasis is on artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and technical leadership. Prior to this appointment, he was Associate Division Head, and a member of the Laboratory's Steering Committee.
He is the MIT Lead Lecturer for the course titled: "AI Strategies and Roadmap: Systems Engineering Approach to AI Development and Deployment." The course is based on his former graduate engineering course taught at MIT that instructed students on techniques to formulating an AI strategic roadmap, starting from AI architecture principles, leading to concept prototyping, and deployment of end-to-end AI system capabilities, including hands-on experiential learning leveraging a single-board computer. The course also addressed responsible AI, and the leadership of multi-disciplinary teams.
Mr. Martinez has developed and led complex prototype systems, from their inception to their final deployments. The system demonstrations operated in real-time, leveraging adaptive signal processing and high performance embedded computing. These successful prototype demonstrations served as the pathfinder for industry to later commercialize.  
He has been a keynote speaker at both national and international conferences. He was elected IEEE Fellow “for technical leadership in the development of high performance embedded computing for real-time defense systems.” He holds three U.S. patents based on his work in signal processing for seismic applications. He received the special achievement award from ARCO Oil and Gas Research Center.
He established and chaired workshops on Robustness of AI Systems and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security. He was awarded the Eminent Engineer Award from the College of Engineering at NMSU, and was elected to the NMSU Klipsch Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy.
Mr. Martinez was awarded a BS degree from New Mexico State University, an MS degree from MIT, and the EE degree jointly from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Electrical Engineering and Oceanographic Engineering. He completed an MBA from the Southern Methodist University. He was born in El Paso, Texas, to a Mexican-American father and a Bolivian mother, and grew up in South America. He is fluent in Spanish. He is an avid saltwater fisherman, golfer, and outdoorsman.

Education

    Mr. Martinez holds a bachelor's degree from New Mexico State University, an MS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an EE degree jointly from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He completed an MBA from the Southern Methodist University. He has attended the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Mr. Martinez joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1988 and was responsible for the development of a large prototype space-time adaptive signal processor. Prior to joining the Laboratory, he was Principal Research Engineer at ARCO Oil and Gas Company, responsible for a multidisciplinary company project to demonstrate the viability of real-time adaptive signal processing techniques. He received the ARCO special achievement award for the planning and execution of the 1986 Cuyama Project, which provided a superior and cost-effective approach to three-dimensional seismic surveys. He holds three U.S. patents.
    Mr. Martinez is the founder, and served from 1997 to 1999 as chairman, of a national workshop on high performance embedded computing. He has also served as keynote speaker at multiple national-level workshops and symposia including the Tenth Annual High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, the Real-Time Systems Symposium, and the Second International Workshop on Compiler and Architecture Support for Embedded Systems. He was appointed to the Army Science Board from 1999 to 2004. From 1994 to 1998, he was Associate Editor to the IEEE Signal Processing magazine. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2003, and in 2007 he served on the Defense Science Board ISR Task Force.
    Mr. Martinez holds a bachelor's degree from New Mexico State University, an MS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an EE degree jointly from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He completed an MBA from the Southern Methodist University. He has attended the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Personal Interests

    fishing, running, golf, hunting and spending time with my family

Books

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