Robert Hyland

Rob leads Charles River’s Program Transition, which translates our extensive R&D cutting-edge research portfolio into operational use. His current technology focus areas include intelligent training, predictive maintenance, human-machine autonomy, cyber security, and human sensing. With expertise in AI, behavioral models, and mixed-initiative decision support, Rob has directed innovations that value nearly $100M. He has nearly 25 years of experience researching decision support, workflow automation, plan assessment, knowledge representation, computer languages, compilers, program synthesis, formal methods, and cyber technologies. Rob also developed decision-support tools that were deployed to three US Intelligence Agencies for operational use. He received his MS in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1994, where he worked on AI, intelligent tutoring systems, and modeling semantic memory retrieval, and a BS degree Elmhurst College.