He has been with Seagate for 24 years including 8 years at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh where he was Director of Research - Servomechanics as well as a researcher on storage-compute architectures. Kevin has strong ties to CMU collaborating on the Non-Linear Stochastic Processing project with Prof Tom Mitchell and Prof Dave Touretzky and designing the hardware prototype for the First Person Vision project with Prof Takeo Kanade at the Quality of Life Technology Center and probably most excitingly building the backup gyro stabilized LIDAR gimbal which was used on Redteam's Sandstorm in the first DARPA Grand Challenge. Kevin was Director of Advanced Concepts at Seagate R&D in Singapore and is a EEE Grad of the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.