Osama Saeed

Osama Saeed is a Senior Software Engineer in Planning and Controls at Shield AI.4 He has a strong educational background with a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he had a GPA of 3.92 out of 4.0. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the same university, with a GPA of 3.75 out of 4.0.

Saeed has held multiple roles at Shield AI, including Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer II in the Planning and Controls department. He also served as an AI Software Engineering Intern there. Prior to his work at Shield AI, Saeed was a Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, a Software Engineering Intern at Capital One, a Mathematics Research Assistant, and an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Earlier in his career, he was a Software Developer at Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan and an Engineering Intern at Interpower Induction USA.

Shield AI, founded in 2015, is a defense technology company focused on protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.13 The company is building an AI pilot, called Hivemind, that has flown a fighter jet (F-16), a vertical takeoff and landing drone (V-BAT), and a quadcopter (Nova).13 Shield AI builds self-driving technology that allows swarms of unmanned systems to operate without GPS, communications, or remote pilots.2 The Planning and Controls team at Shield AI is responsible for researching and developing algorithms that drive intelligent and reliable flight behaviors in uncertain environments.1