2026 speaker

Speaker’s Brief Introduction (English) Charbel is Founder and CTO of Oculi.

Prior to this venture, he was an Associate Research Professor at JHU ECE, a Principal Professional Staff, Systems/Lead Engineer, S&T Advisor, Innovation Lead, member of the S&T committee, and member of the Innovation Steering Group at JHU APL.
He has had numerous publications and intellectual property filings, and received 12 achievement/recognition awards.

Dr. Charbel has been recognized as a top innovator, thought leader, and successful Principal Investigator /S&T manager, and has demonstrated an effective model for R&D that yielded multiple innovative and far-reaching concepts and technologies.
He was a pioneer in UAV technology, AI & machine learning, and autonomy. He has been the visionary for the optimized signal-to-information architecture that embodies dynamic software-defined multi-modal sensing and fusion and true edge processing.