Ben Motazed

Dr. Ben Motazed has been in the robotics and unmanned systems industry for more than 30 years. He earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Robotics Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and started his career as a research scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. While there, he pursued research in subsurface mapping technologies and devices, unmanned ground vehicles and distributed vehicle control systems. Since then, he has held senior executive roles in strategy, business development, sales, product management and marketing at companies such as Aurora Flight Sciences, Athena Technologies, Rockwell Collins, Google X, Intel Corporation and AeroVironment. Ben is an experienced enterprise account manager with a long history of working in the unmanned systems and aerospace industries.