Dr. Mykel J. Kochenderfer is a staff member in the Homeland Protection and Air Traffic Control Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and is the technical lead on the next-generation TCAS algorithm development. His research has focused on applying machine learning techniques to complex decision problems. Dr. Kochenderfer received B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Stanford University in 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in informatics from the University of Edinburgh in 2006. Prior to joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory, he has been involved in artificial intelligence research at Rockwell Scientific, the Honda Research Institute, and Microsoft Research. He is a third-generation pilot.