Adam Romlein

Senior Research and Development Engineer — Kitware, Inc. (Remote)

NOAA KAMERA. I lead KAMERA, the multi-camera EO/IR/UV aerial survey system that AFSC's Marine Mammal Laboratory uses to survey seals and whales. I upgraded the system to Phase One cameras for more pixels on target during species classification, then built and validated a complete second imaging system so two aircraft can survey at the same time, and extended DIVE/VIAME with KAMERA-specific features. The work keeps me close to the field: three weeks of ice seal surveys out of Nome, Alaska, two weeks of Rice's whale surveys in Florida and Texas, and another four weeks on-site with MML staff in Lakeland and Seattle developing and duplicating the system.

U.S. Army C5ISR Countermine. I lead relocalization and mapping on a Phase II SBIR for UAS-based landmine detection, where I built a pipeline that matches live imagery to prebuilt SfM and orthoimagery maps using SIFT/FAISS tile indexing, coarse homography, and RoMaV2 dense refinement, benchmarked on Jetson Orin. I was also technical lead on a separate Phase II effort for long-term tracking and re-identification in UAS video.

AFRL TAKML. I connected our edge-deployed URSA tracker to the ARCTAK ATAK plugin, publishing person tracks, re-ID matches, and live alerts through TAK Server.

Research and Development Engineer — Kitware, Inc. (Hybrid, Clifton Park, NY)

DARPA URSA. As lead systems engineer, I deployed TensorRT-optimized detection, tracking, and activity-recognition models onto Jetson Xavier platforms via ROS/Python and orchestrated a network of over 24 mobile (UGV, UAV) and fixed PTZ cameras. I owned more than a dozen Git repositories and their Docker containerization, supervised three OSTP interns building a tracking UI, and helped carry the system to TRL 6 over 20+ weeks of field testing.

NOAA KAMERA. As a core developer, I worked directly with NOAA scientists to mature the system from research code into a stable, modular stack, and adapted it for NASA's SIERRA-B large UAS.

NOAA ADAPT. That same stack became the basis for ADAPT, a modular sUAS payload for ice-floe mapping built with the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

DARPA ANGLER. I led integration, assembling and operating a BlueROV2 with a tethered Jetson Xavier for underwater data collection and in-water model testing.

Research and Development Intern — Kitware, Inc. (Clifton Park, NY)

I supported system integration on NOAA KAMERA and DARPA URSA, working on Jetson Xavier-based sensing networks.

Research and Development Intern — Kitware, Inc. (Clifton Park, NY)

For DARPA Squad-X, I developed an R-CNN-based person detector using EO/IR fusion for a Clearpath Husky UGV, and built a ROS/Python architecture to replay 9 camera streams synchronously across 3 hardware nodes. I also supported data collection for DARPA DIVA, gathering multi-modal camera streams for activity recognition.

Technical Intern — Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (Niskayuna, NY)

I was design lead on equipment for examining spent nuclear fuel components, owning the mechanical design and its integration with existing systems under a Naval Reactors safety culture.