Why Shield AI: The Intersection Between Gaming and AI
A conversation with Alex Rozgo, a Dynamical Systems Engineer at Shield AI You have devoted more than two decades to developing games on the cutting edge of technology. What attracted you about the hard problems which Shield AI is tackling? There are many hard problems, but it is not often you get the opportunity to […]
Why Shield AI: Designing for Solutions
A conversation with Mark White, an Electrical Engineer at Shield AI Why is Shield AI the best place for an electrical engineer to be? One of the big career risks engineers face is to slowly be siloed into a specific role. I’ve seen this happen to many of my peers and have personally fought to […]
Why Shield AI: The Complexities of Human-Machine Interaction
A conversation with Ali Momeni, Senior Principal Scientist and Director of User Services & Experience at Shield AI Prior to Shield AI your work was in creative arts. What project are you most proud of? What was it and why? “Tragedy of the Commons” by Ali Momeni and Robin Meier, Photo by Aurélie Cenno I […]
Meet Our Leaders: A Conversation with Andrew Reiter
You started your education in chemical engineering. Why did you ultimately pursue a career in AI & robotics? I had been interested in robotics from a young age, but as I went into college I had a strong interest in chemistry and engineering so I chose to study chemical engineering. As a junior in college, […]
Meet Our Leaders: A Conversation with Brandon Tseng
What is more important, the journey or the outcome? What matters on every journey isn’t necessarily the outcome, it is the path, the learning, and the growth. No matter the outcome, I believe that 2 things make a journey great: The adversity faced along the way. The more daunting the trials, the better, more interesting, […]
Meet Our Leaders: A Conversation with Nathan Michael
How did research concerning multi-agent and multi-robot collaboration become one of the central thrusts of your academic career? I began working with multi-robot collaboration and coordination through my Ph.D. effort. Working with an advisor, I focused my work on teams of robots and how we think about designing feedback control strategies to drive a team […]
Why Shield AI: Values that Motivate
When I first interviewed at Shield AI, I sensed an energy rooted in a passion for the mission from everyone I met. To this day, I feel that same excitement and sense of focused purpose daily. I come to work excited to continue learning, to develop even stronger friendships, and to make a real difference. […]
Why Shield AI: Passionate Teammates
In the small hours of a recent Monday morning, I found myself up at 13000 ft, trudging through a snow chute on the way to Mt. Whitney with two colleagues and absolutely zero mountaineering experience. As I labored clumsily through the snow with my crampons and ice ax, I wondered just for a moment why […]
Meet Our Leaders: A Conversation with Ryan Tseng
What motivated you to start Shield AI? I joined my brother Brandon and co-founder Andrew to create Shield AI because Brandon inspired me, through his own example, to think about how I could make a meaningful contribution to protecting service members and innocent civilians. Andrew inspired me to believe that the necessary technologies were within […]
Why Shield AI: My Job Makes Me Smarter
Startups aren’t sexy, but stories about start-ups are. It’s why we see headlines like “this guy turned 8 lines of code into $1 billion.” Condensing a decade’s journey into a single narrative creates a clarity that never was — and never will be. The truth is that startups are grueling adventures. Adventures which involve physical […]
