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 Phillip Yeager has spent over 20 years creating mission critical automation solutions for complex problems.
Yeager recently led the development of an autonomous vehicle to compete in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge for Autonomous Ground Vehicles. The vehicle, named Jackbot, was selected as a Grand Challenge Finalist from over 195 applicants. Earlier in his career, as a founding member and a technical team leader with InVision Technologies, Inc., Yeager developed key subsystems of the first FAA-certified airport baggage explosive detection system. The InVision CTX system is now widely deployed in airport terminals and InVision was purchased by GE in 2005 for approximately $900 million. As a consultant for Eaton Controls, Yeager designed communications and control firmware for U.S. Navy Submarines. As an engineer with Siemens Medical Systems, Yeager developed image processing and embedded control software for medical imaging systems. Prior to that, he worked for SAIC designing computer subsystems and electronics for gamma spectroscopy instruments. Yeager earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.E.E.E. from Vanderbilt University. He is a Registered Electrical Engineer with the California State Board of Professional Engineers and a member of the Texas Bar. In his spare time, Yeager enjoys filmmaking, motorcycling and playing tennis with his two daughters. |
