CISE Industry Roundtable Welcomes Austin Jones, MIT Lincoln Labs
Austin Jones, a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, spoke to CISE graduate students at the 1st Fall Semester 2018 Industry Roundtable on October 10, 2018.
Jones received his PhD in Systems Engineering from Boston University in 2015 under supervision of Professors Calin Belta (ME) and Mac Schwager (formerly at BU in Mechanical Engineering). During his time at BU, Austin developed planning algorithms for robots gathering information in uncertain environments. This led to working on a variety of successful projects throughout his program.
After receiving his degree, Jones became interested in applied research on a larger scale, rather than solely focusing on the science. This led him to the Lincoln Laboratory where more consideration on functional projects than does academia and has many opportunities to work on the realization of the research. By “work on things of larger scale” at a lab, Jones says, he finds that “applied research has a practical application.”
MIT Lincoln Laboratory spans across a wide range of mission areas, including air traffic control, homeland protection, space control, and information sciences. Jones works with different groups of researchers and experts in their fields and is “currently using machine learning to help design simulation studies and experiments.” At Lincoln Laboratory, Jones is consistently involved in a variety of research projects with the aim of enhancing national security.
Jones obtained his B.S. and M.S. in systems science from Washington University in Saint Louis and his PhD in systems engineering from Boston University. Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, Austin was a post-doctoral research fellow in the departments of mechanical and electrical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.