Eddie Gutierrez
Robotics Product Champion
SLB-Midstream Production Systems
Eddie Gutierrez is the Robotics Product Champion for SLB's Midstream Production Systems Business. Eddie is an Army Aviation veteran of 9 years. He has also served in the NDT and Robotics industry for 25 years holding various commercial and operational roles with Everest/VIT, GE, Baker Hughes, and Nexxis. He completed his Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration (Marketing) at American Intercontinental University. He resides in the Greater Houston area with his wife and three children (all college students). When not serving our great industry, Eddie enjoys teaching at his local church, traveling with his family, and cheering on his daughter's college soccer team.
Marty Robinson
Global Robotics Technology Leader
Dow
Marty Robinson is a Global Robotics Technology Leader at Dow. Develops and evaluates robotic solutions for inspection and maintenance activities within Dow's chemical manufacturing facilities. Focused primarily on reducing confined space entries as well as other hazardous work including elevated and sub surface as well as industrial cleaning. Implementing these platforms to Dow facilities around the world.
Brant Cassimere, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member
Instrumentation & Controls Supervisor
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Brant Cassimere was born and raised in Plaisance, Louisiana. He attended Northwest High School and graduated as co-valedictorian in 1996. Brant continued his studies at Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College and later graduated summa cum laude in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematics. During his undergraduate tenure, Brant completed four internships with ExxonMobil in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Seeking a graduate education, Brant attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana where he received Master of Science and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 and 2008 respectively.
Post-graduation, Brant moved to Houston, Texas and joined ExxonMobil where he has worked for the past 15 years. To date, Brant has assumed various technical, research and commercial roles that have taken him to 15+ countries. He is currently serving as the Instrumentation & Controls supervisor within ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company. His global team provides technical support to existing sites, capital projects and research and development initiatives (e.g., Wireless, Robotics and Predictive Maintenance). Outside of work, Brant is an IEEE senior member and Chair of the IEEE Papers Review Committee. Brant is happily married to Erica Cassimere and has two kids: a 14-year-old daughter (Morgan Cassimere) and a 7 year-old son (Nicholas Cassimere).
Gangbing Song, Ph.D.
John and Rebecca Moores Professor
Director, Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Houston
Dr. G. Song is the founding Director of the Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering (joint), and Electrical & Computer Engineering (joint) at the University of Houston. Dr. Song is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2001. Dr. Song received his Ph.D. and MS degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York in 1995 and 1991, respectively. Dr. Song received his B.S. degree in 1989 from Zhejiang University, China. He has expertise in structural health monitoring and damage detection, robotics enabled inspection, smart materials and structures, structural vibration control, piezoceramics, and ultrasonic transducers. He has published more than 500 papers, including 400 peer reviewed journal articles. His google H-index is 79. Dr. Song is also an inventor or co-inventor of 26 US patents and. He has received research funding from NSF, DoE, NASA, Department of Education, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), Texas Higher Education Board, TSGC (Texas Space Grant Consortium), UTMB (University of Texas Medical Branch), OSGC (Ohio Space Grant Consortium), OAI (Ohio Aerospace Institute), ODoT (Ohio Department of Transportation), HP, OptiSolar, GE, and Cameron. In addition to his research effort, Dr. Song has passion in improving teaching using technology. He is a leader in internet enabled remote experiment/laboratory and a pioneer in systematically implementing remote experiments in engineering education. He received the prestigious Outstanding Technical Contribution Award from the Aerospace Division of ASCE, the Excellence in Research & Scholarship Award at Full Professor Level from UH, the Celebrating Excellence Award for Excellence in Education from ISA (International Society of Automation), the IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Informal Education, among others. Dr. Song served as the General Chair of the Earth and Space Conference 2010, Aerospace Division, ASCE.
Raj Bose
Senior Inspection Engineer-Chartered Engineer, MBA, NDT Level III
British Petroleum
Raj has been working in the oil and gas industry for over 25 years and worked extensively in the area of Integrity Management with focus on inspection. In his current role as Senior Inspection Engineer, NDE SME in BP Innovation and Engineering. Raj is working with cross functional team identifying, accessing, and field trialing remote and autonomous inspection technologies underpinned by robotics, digital workflow and advance analytics in oil and Gas as well as BP Onshore Wind. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MBA in Global Management. He is a professional landscape photographer and a world traveler.
Trey Caylor
CTC Robotics Program Manager
Chevron
Trey is the CTC Robotics Program Manager, working from the Downtown Houston office. He is happily married to Marisela Caylor and has a 14-year-old son Chase. He is an Army Combat Engineer Veteran with multiple combat deployments in 8 years of service. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M-Kingsville and an EMBA from University of Houston. Trey has worked in the Oil and Gas industry for 15 years, positions in Operations, Reliability Engineering, Maintenance, Inspection and Project roles in Downstream and Projects, Operations, Engineering Management and Major Capital Project Management in Upstream facilities located around the world. When not working to support the development and scaling of robotics Trey likes watching movies, baseball, and traveling.