Duane Davis
Senior Lecturer And Researcher at Naval Postgraduate School
Seaside, California, United States
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Top SchoolDuane Davis is a senior lecturer, researcher, and former naval aviator with over two decades of leadership delivering high-impact autonomous systems and cybersecurity education. He leads cutting-edge aerial swarm robotics research—developing consensus algorithms and formation/engagement behaviors demonstrated on 50-vehicle swarms—and has translated operational command experience into scalable software and systems design in Java, C++, and Python. His work bridges rigorous formal methods and ethics—authoring a mathematically grounded framework for ethical autonomous operations and enforcing mission semantics with description logics and ontologies. A proven program leader and instructor, he advises multi-department graduate projects, manages large curricula for military sponsors, and routinely presents to senior audiences. Notably, his blend of carrier-deck operational command of 300-person teams and formal CS research enables uniquely practical, safety-focused autonomy solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Virginia TechPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Naval Postgraduate School
Github Skills (20)
robotics10
stem10
python9
sensor9
nvidia-docker8
gazebosim8
nvidia7
gazebo-simulator7
cuda7
robotics-simulation6
ros6
robot-simulator6
gpu6
docker6
docker-run6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Field-Robotics-Lab/dave
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Project DAVE
Contributions:16 reviews, 123 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 10 months
stemroboticspython
Field-Robotics-Lab/uuv_simulator
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Gazebo/ROS packages for underwater robotics simulation
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
gazeborobotics-simulationroboticsros2simulation
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