Blythe Towal

Blythe is a team-focused problem solver with excellent experimental, quantitative, and analytical skills and extensive experience in software development for robotics, machine learning, engineering design, and research and development. Prior to joining Saildrone, she held senior roles at Shield AI and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), where she led teams that developed and integrated machine-learned perception models critical to real-time robot autonomy, as well as at Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM). Blythe earned an MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.