Sylvain Bruni

Affiliation

Aptima, Inc.

Biography

Mr. Sylvain Bruni is Principal Engineer and Deputy Division Director for Performance Augmentation Systems at Aptima. His work focuses on developing human-AI collaborative systems by advancing research in hybrid teams, maturing the science of human-automation collaboration, and deploying prototype technologies in defense and healthcare domains. Mr. Bruni currently supervises a portfolio of defense and civilian cognitive assistants called SIDEKICK (Systems for Interactive Discovery and Exploitation of Knowledge and Insights with Contextual Kinetics). SIDEKICK supports human operators and workers in managing data, information, and knowledge deluge in high-impact, dynamic, and uncertain environments and workflows. SIDEKICK prototypes have been designed and implemented for various domains such as mission planning, intelligence analysis, transportation safety, modeling and simulation data management, missile defense, aircraft maintenance, drone operations, and military technology acquisition. Mr. Bruni holds an SM in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec, France). He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the G-45 Human Systems Integration (HSI) Standards Committee of SAE, and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).