PUBLIC SAFETY
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Robin Roberson Murphy (IEEE Fellow) received a B.M.E. in mechanical engineering, a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science in 1980, 1989, and 1992, respectively, from Georgia Tech, where she was a Rockwell International Doctoral Fellow. She is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M and directs the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue and an IEEE Fellow. Her research interests are artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and heterogeneous teams of robots and she has over 100 publications including the best selling textbook, Introduction to AI Robotics (MIT Press 2000). She is a founder of the fields of rescue robots and human-robot interaction. In 2008, she was awarded the Al Aube Outstanding Contributor award by the AUVSI Foundation, for her insertion of ground, air, and sea robots for urban search and rescue (US&R) at 11 disasters, including the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster, Hurricanes Katrina and Charley, and the Crandall Canyon Utah mine collapse. Since arriving at Texas A&M in 2008, she has been leading an initiative in emergency informatics, which stems in part from witnessing valuable data from robots not reaching the right decision maker. Dr. Murphy is active in the community, having served on the IEEE Robotics and Automation executive committees, numerous National Academies and defense boards, including the Defense Science Board.

Prior to joining SERTC in 2014, Mr. Morris spent the better part of two decades as a private rescue and response contractor. He has played a part in numerous large-scale incidents such as the M/V Kuroshima oil spill, Deepwater Horizon response, Hurricane Katrina, and Magnablend industrial fire. Mr. Morris is currently an OSHA Outreach Trainer for the University of Texas at Arlington, a BLS instructor for the Red Cross and holds numerous specialty certifications such as Hazmat Specialist, Transportation Specialist, Confined Space and Vertical Rescue Technician, Radiation Safety Officer, and Rescue Diver. He is currently TTCI’s chief pilot and Project Coordinator for SERTC.

Joe Mazel serves as the Chief of the FBI’s Operational Technology Law Unit, and in that position, leads the development of legal and policy advice to senior executive managers and agents in the FBI concerning the use and worldwide deployment of applied scientific and technological investigative capabilities to support the collection of evidence and intelligence in criminal and national security investigations. Joe has supported the integration and deployment of unmanned aircraft within the FBI and the Department of Justice for a number of years as a member of the Department of Justice’s Unmanned Aircraft Working Group, and was a principal contributor to the Department’s Policy on the Use of UAS. Joe also is one of the leaders of efforts with respect to counter-UAS. Joe is a member of the National Security Council’s Policy Coordinating Committees on Counter-Drone and Aviation Security, and was a key leader in drafting and obtaining the passage of the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which provided both the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security with counter-UAS authority. Joe continues as a key leader in writing and implementing the Administration’s C-UAS and aviation security policies. Joe serves as the chair of the Interagency Legal Working Group on countering Unmanned Aerial Systems, which includes representatives of DOJ, DOD and DHS, where he has drafted requirements documents for industry and the FAA to facilitate C-UAS operations, and consulted the FAA with respect to its UAS rulemaking and legislative initiatives.Prior to the FBI, Joe was a civilian legal advisor to the Department of Defense’s Office of Military Commissions, served on active duty with the United State Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps where he deployed in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, and served as an assistant district attorney with the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office in New York, NY.

Joe is a licenses private pilot and has received the Bronze Star Medal, the Federal Bar Association’s Younger Federal Lawyer Award in 2005, and the United States Army’s General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award in 2001. He received his Juris Doctor from the Pace University School of Law in White Plains, NY, and his Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and New Jersey, the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

Dave Lee teaches Level I Thermography, Level 1 sUAS Thermography, and Level 1 sUAS Public Safety Thermography. He is also involved with curriculum development for ITC’s sUAS courses and was the creator and host of the FLIR DELTA video series on drone thermography. Dave has trained over 4,500 airplane and helicopter crews on the tactical employment of airborne thermal imaging systems for militaries, coast guards, federal and local law enforcement agencies all around the US and in 33 foreign countries. A skilled technical communicator, he has also published over 400 articles in magazines, trade publications and academic journals, and served as adjunct faculty at numerous colleges and universities. Before joining ITC Dave was an airline pilot and flight instructor for Private, Instrument, Commercial, and Multi-Engine flight students.

David Lee
Instructor, Level III Thermographer
FAA part 107 Remote Pilot
FAA Airline Transport Pilot