Biography for Dr. John Bay 

Program Manager, Information Exploitation Office DARPA

Dr. John Bay has been with DARPA since April 2001. He currently manages

the Close Combat Lethal Recon (CCLR), Heterogeneous Urban RSTA Team

(HURT) Software-Enabled Control (SEC) and Model-Based Integration of

Embedded Systems (MoBIES) programs within the IXO office. Prior to

joining DARPA, he was an Engineering Fellow at the Raytheon Company,

Falls Church, Virginia, where he worked in robotics, command and

control, and C3I advanced systems. Prior to that, he spent eleven years

as a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia

Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. His

academic research interests focused on control systems, robotics,

machine learning, and embedded systems.

Dr. Bay is a senior member of the IEEE, a former IEEE Computer Society

Distinguished Visitor and a former associate technical editor of IEEE

Control Systems Magazine. He is author of over sixty publications,

including the textbook, Fundamentals of Linear State Space Systems. He

is a 1988 doctoral graduate of The Ohio State University, where his

graduate studies included control systems, applied mathematics,

statistics, and biomechanics.

Dr. Bay's program interests include command and control of multiple

UAVs, management and design of autonomous unmanned systems, and rapid

construction of reliable embedded systems.