Steve Kowalski

Dr. Kowalski is a System Architect at Northrop Grumman Information Systems. He has been with Northrop Grumman his entire 25-year career except for a 5-year stint in the commercial software sector. He began his career at Northrop in 1984 as an IR&D Principle Investigator for Robotic/Machine Vision applications and has since expanded his interests into the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Geographic Information Systems, Satellite Command & Control, Mission Data Processing, Mission Management, and Information Management. His primary area of expertise is in Software and System Architecture as applied to Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems. Dr. Kowalski received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University with an emphasis on Robotics, Sensors, and Control Systems. He received an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. His graduate studies were supported by a Northrop Grumman Fellowship Award. He has taught computer science courses at California State University at Fullerton and served on the Extended Education Advisory Board at that institution. Dr. Kowalski is a senior member of AIAA and serves on the Software Systems Technical Committee. He is also a member of IEEE.