Dr. Scott Clouse is the Chief AI Officer for and co-founder of the Autonomy Capability Team 3 (ACT3), a team of 200+ members dedicated to developing & fielding novel AI technologies. He received his PhD in machine learning and data analysis for developing the theory for and implementing an adaptive, distributed, vision-augmented behavior characterization system. For decades, Dr. Clouse has worked with partners in industry, academia and both public and private research to provide innovative and state of the art automation and data science solutions for a host of complex challenges.

 Fervor for research in artificial intelligence and data science drives him to stay at the cutting edge of these fields through frequent presentation, publication and participation in the global research community. Consequently, Dr. Clouse has led the research team to win several international academic competitions in natural language processing, emergent multi-agent cooperation, and scene understanding. Such performance coupled with continued grant awards and an ever-growing cadre of students has earned him a fellowship for young investigators (the Air Force Early Career Award) and nomination for the same from the President of the United States (PECASE).