Dr. Robert Sottilare, Director of Learning Sciences, joined SoarTech in 2018 after completing a long federal career with both US Army and Navy training science and technology organizations. He has nearly 40 years of experience as a researcher, developer and evaluator of instructional technology and training systems. His experience spans government (U.S. Army and Navy science & technology organizations), industry, and academia. His recent research has focused on intelligent networked solutions for analysis and training, adaptive instruction including learner and team modeling, automated authoring tools, AI-based real-time instructional management, and evaluation methods for intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). He founded the Adaptive Instructional System (AIS) Consortium, a non-profit organization under IEEE Industry and Standards Technology Organization (ISTO) to represent companies and universities within the AIS research and development community and promote open source AIS technology development in 2020.