Dr. Henry Schneiderman

Inventor, President, and Chief Executive Officer

PhD and MS Carnegie Mellon University; BS Brown University

PittPatt's technology is the result of a decade of research by Dr. Schneiderman as a student and later faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Schneiderman is a recognized leader in the pattern recognition field with over 15 publications and several patents issued and pending in the area. As a faculty member, he served as a principal investigator on numerous research contracts totalling more than $4.5 million. Dr. Schneiderman previously worked for the NIST where he developed a machine vision system for fully autonomous vehicles.

Dr. Michael Nechyba

Vice President of Research & Engineering

PhD Carnegie Mellon University; BS University of Florida

After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Nechyba accepted a faculty position in ECE at the University of Florida (UF), where he was the associate director of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory. Dr. Nechyba was a co-founder of UF's Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) center. He and his students developed vision-based algorithms for autonomous flight and intelligent MAV missions, including flight in complex urban environments, ground-object tracking and natural scene image analysis and segmentation. As a faculty member at UF, he served as PI and on research contracts totalling more than $10 million.