Bob Robinson
Communications Chair &
Robotics Chair
Bob Robinson is an IEEE Senior member and Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) and is Principal Investigator for the Boeing Phantom Works Unmanned Ground Systems division, a small new business segment at Boeing that serves Defense and Homeland Security autonomous ground vehicle markets. Before serving in that role, he led Boeing software engineering on the SPACEHAB program since 1991 and held a variety of software, hardware, and systems engineering positions over the past 25 years in military ballistic defense, commercial nuclear safety programs, and the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia airport. In addition to managing the Huntsville IEEE Section website (http://www.ieee-huntsville.org), Bob maintains the Huntsville INCOSE chapter website (http://www.incose.org/huntsville), IEEE Computer Society (http://ewh.ieee.org/r3/huntsville/) and AUVSI (http://www.auvsipathfinder.com/) chapter websites. He received a Masters in Systems Architecture and Engineering from University of Southern California in 2004, a Bachelors in Mathematics and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana Tech in 1980, and did his Masters in Electrical Engineering coursework at Louisiana Tech in 1981