About Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition

History

PittPatt was founded in 2004 as a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University after nearly ten years of research in object recognition conducted by Dr. Henry Schneiderman as both a student and faculty member of the CMU Robotics Institute. Dr. Schneiderman is joined by co-founder, fellow CMU PhD graduate and former University of Florida Professor, Dr. Michael Nechyba, and fellow CMU PhD graduate, Dr. Michael A. Sipe.

Management Team

Henry Schneiderman

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 over 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. In 2008, Dr. Henry Schneiderman, along with Dr. Takeo Kanade, received the Longuet-Higgins Prize for “fundamental contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test of time”, namely their 1998 paper: “Probabilistic modeling of local appearance and spatial relationships for object recognition.” As a faculty member, he served as a principal investigator on numerous research contracts totaling more than $4.5 million. Dr. Schneiderman previously worked for NIST where he developed a machine vision system for fully autonomous vehicles.

Michael Nechyba

Dr. Michael Nechyba

Vice President of Research & Development
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 principal investigator on research contracts totaling more than $10 million.

Michael A. Sipe

Dr. Michael A. Sipe

Vice President of Product Development
PhD Carnegie Mellon University; MS and BS Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Dr. Sipe has more than 20 years of experience specifying, developing, deploying, and marketing practical image analysis systems. While with International Business Machines, he developed document imaging systems as well as computer vision systems for automated VLSI manufacture and inspection. At Cellomics, he led development of instrumentation and software for automated cell analysis via fluorescence microscopy. Most recently, he was a product manager with Thermo Fisher Scientific. In addition to his commercial development experience, Dr. Sipe has also led research efforts sponsored by the FAA, DARPA, and the National Institutes of Health.