Jeff Arena is an associate technical staff member of Lincoln Laboratory’s Artificial Intelligence Technologies group. There, his interests include end-to-end machine learning pipeline design, rigorous machine learning software development methodology, reinforcement learning for tactics discovery, and machine learning education. Jeff earned his master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he focused on engineering system design and control theory. His previous experience as an graduate teaching assistant includes control and embedded system programming.