Francis Govers
Director Of Engineering - Uncrewed Systems at Airbus US Space & Defense, Inc.
North Richland Hills, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis X. Govers III is an award-winning robotics engineer and aerospace visionary who leads uncrewed systems engineering at Airbus US Space & Defense. With decades of experience at NASA, the DoD, and major aerospace firms, he has designed swarm UAVs, autonomous vehicles, and planetary rovers, and currently advances sensor fusion, autonomous navigation, and decision-making frameworks for VTOL systems. He has shaped autonomy strategy at Bell Flight and Collins Aerospace and led advanced R&D as CTO of Gamma 2 Robotics, guiding productized AI robotics across security and defense domains. A published author of Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and Generative AI for Robotics, he combines technical rigor with a broad creative curiosity that informs ethical, human-centered AI. A commercial multi-engine pilot and international speaker based in North Richland Hills, Texas, he holds a USAF Academy physics background and an MS in Program and Project Management from Brandeis, along with a BS in Mathematics/Computer Engineering from Texas State University.
10 years of coding experience
42 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Program and Project Management, Master of Science (MS) Program and Project Management at Brandeis University
French, English
Github Skills (10)
robotics4
crossword4
llm-inference4
game-theory3
visual-odometry3
ai-chat2
odometry2
artificial-intelligence2
reinforcement-learning2
parallel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Artificial-Intelligence-for-Robotics-2e
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 26 branches, 7 comments in 4 months
FGovers/Artificial-Intelligence-for-Robotics
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, published by Packt
Contributions:1 commit, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 1 day
crosswordroboticsreinforcement-learningpacktartificial
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