Phillip Yeager

Phillip Yeager has over 35 years of experience developing efficient solutions to difficult problems involving embedded systems, machine control, smart sensors and autonomous vehicles.

Yeager is the software architect and lead developer of the XactPos Micro-location System.

He also 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 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 bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin.

He is a Registered Electrical Engineer with the California State Board of Professional Engineers and a Licensed Member of the Texas State Bar.

By most accounts, Yeager is decent in appearance and mild in demeanor.