Phillip Durst

I’m happy to say I’ve had an eclectic and wonderful professional journey spanning many projects, teams, and research areas. I started as a Research Physicist at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) back in 2009, working on autonomous and driverless vehicles. I then served as an Engineering Manager from 2018-2022 before joining Assured Information Security for a couple of years researching AI/ML for the military. After some more AI/ML military research with Bennett Aerospace from 2024-2025, I'm happy to have landed at Learn Collaborate as the Head of AI Science for what is very soon to be the best place to learn the soft skills that cannot be gained through current online learning platforms. Along the way, I taught video game design and computer vision at the Rochester Institute of Technology, freelanced as a copywriter and academic coach off-and-on since 2018, and even taught ESL to students in China during COVID. Now, I'm excited to see what adventure comes my way next.