46th Annual Engineers Week Dinner

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025

Fetzer Center

5:30 p.m. Social Hour

6:30 p.m. Dinner/Awards

7:30 p.m. Presentation

This year’s guest speaker is Dr. Hunter Morera, a Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing Division (HPCD)., where he has focused on applying AI and ML approaches to a variety of computer vision problems.

The presentation is titled “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Military Applications”, which provides information on how new technologies are being applied in a variety of technical fields, particularly with the You-Only-Look-Once (YOLO) approach.

About the speaker

Hunter Morera earned his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of South Florida in December 2023. His graduate work focused on applying various AI and ML approaches to a wide variety of computer vision problems. Dr. Morera has over seven years of experience in computer vision with a total of nine conference and six journal papers along with two patent applications for novel computer vision work. He is currently a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing Division.