I am a systems engineer at Facebook. I received my MS in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech. In the past I designed autopilots and control systems for unmanned aircraft. I came to Facebook to design the flight controls for their drone, Aquila. My current areas of involvement are embedded systems and computer vision.
Interests
Autonomous vehicles, servomechanisms, embedded systems, computer vision, guidance navigation and control
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Latest Publications
ICCAR - April 20, 2020
Trajectory Optimization of Solar-Powered High-Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft
Jack Marriott, Birce Tezel, Zhang Liu, Nicolas Stier
AIAA Scitech - January 6, 2020
Aeroelastic Preliminary-Design Optimization of Communication Tower Structures
Vishvas Suryakumar, Paul Varkey, Ben Thomsen, Jack Marriott, David Liu, Abhishek Tiwari
October 12, 2018
Energy-Optimized Trajectory Planning for High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Aircraft
Hamidreza Bolandhemmat, Jack Marriott, Benjamin Thomsen