Dr Brent Olde

Principal Enterprise Fellow for Artificial Intelligence Technologies at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.

Brent completed his PhD from the University of Memphis in Experimental Psychology (focus on Cognitive Psychology) in 2002. As a postgraduate, he ran an eye-tracking lab researching learning comprehension and his doctoral work focused on interactive artificially intelligent tutoring systems, specifically leading a natural language processing team. Upon completing his degree, he joined the U.S. Navy as an Aerospace Experimental Psychologist.

During Brent’s 20-year Naval career he took on various roles and responsibilities. At the Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute, he provided research support for personnel selection by creating an online, adaptive, aviation selection test. At the Naval Postgraduate School, Brent was an Assistant Professor teaching Human Factors and completed a Masters in Systems Engineering. At the Naval Air Systems Command, Brent worked as a Human Factors Engineer for the MQ-C Triton (a high-altitude long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle) and was a recurring guest lecturer on Human Factors in Unmanned Aerial Systems at the Naval Test Pilot School.  At Naval Aviation Training Systems, he worked as a Program Manager and was responsible for the evaluation, maturation, and transition of innovative aviation training technologies: automated post mission analysis and readiness tracking; distributed integrated training; and Computer Generated Forces. Brent was the Division Deputy for the Human & Bio-Engineered Systems Department at the Office of Naval Research, where he worked as a Program Manager executing over $70M in Science and Technology Programs. His portfolio included Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Training; Unmanned Systems – operator selection, interface design, and operator training; and embedding Artificial Intelligence into Training Systems. Brent was the Military Director of the Human Systems Engineering Department where he led a department of over 200 personnel that provided Human Factors Engineering for all Naval aviation acquisitions and sustainment. The department ran fifteen labs that provide survivability research and engineering. For his final tour, he returned to Naval Aviation Training Systems and provided strategic planning guidance for training system acquisitions. Duties entailed evaluating and transitioning training system enhancements: adding Artificial Intelligence into training systems; virtual, augmented, and mixed reality training; automated training performance analysis and debriefing; and automated / on-demand training environments.