Jadie Adams is a Senior R&D Engineer on Kitware’s Computer Vision Team. Her research focuses on 3D computer vision, including scene and mosaic reconstruction from video, as well as object detection and tracking. She also contributes to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) programs advancing ethical AI and large language models, including In The Moment (ITM) and Semantic Forensics (SemaFor).

Prior to working at Kitware, Jadie interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) on the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy (MLIA) team. She collaborated with a team of data scientists and cosmologists to develop a probabilistic machine learning model for cosmic microwave background recovery from full sky maps. She also worked at Sorenson on the Speech Sciences and Machine Learning Team as an AI/Speech Scientist II, where she designed and implemented ML/NLP algorithms to enhance automatic speech recognition for telephone captioning.

Jadie earned her Ph.D. in computing (image analysis track) from the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. Her dissertation focused on probabilistic deep learning for medical image analysis and anatomical shape modeling. She did her undergraduate at Westminster University in Salt Lake City where she earned a bachelor’s degree, with honors, in mathematics with a minor in physics and computer science.

Awards

• Best Oral Presentation in the STACOM Workshop at the MICCAI 2022 conference

• Best Paper Runner-Up in the ShapeMI Workshop at the MICCAI 2020 conference

Invited Talks & Media

• ARCS Forward, National Scholars Speaker Series “Machine Learning and Algorithms” February 2022