Staff Page - Jeffrey Rye

Jeffrey Rye
Researcher
612-339-SIFT(7438)

B.S., Computer Science, University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, 1999

Jeffrey M. Rye is a Researcher for SIFT. He is responsible for designing and developing software solutions for research projects. He has more than ten years of experience writing software in research environments, with particular emphasis on software development for user interfaces and tools to support UI development. Mr. Rye has been a chief designer and implementer of the software architecture of the NASA MAID tool.

Prior to joining SIFT Mr. Rye was a Senior Research Scientist for Honeywell Labs. At Honeywell, Mr. Rye contributed to the success of multiple projects, primarily through the development of UIs and their software implementation and support. He designed and implemented a path planning solution for multiple UAVs flying missions in a shared airspace for the DARPA HURT program, and demonstrated it in a live flight test. He created a highway-in-the-sky (HITS) visualization (for a HUD or PFD) using OpenGL. He designed and implemented multiple navigation display concepts for the NASA ANCOA program, leading to multiple patent applications. He designed and implemented a touchscreen-based graphical first responder display which is being sold as a Honeywell product and whose basic architecture was made the basis of NIST and NFPA standards. He implemented an animated 3D visualization of LIDAR data collected from a DARPA Urban Challenge vehicle. Mr. Rye also designed and implemented the user interface and energy monitoring and analysis tool.

Mr. Rye has extensive experience with C/C++, Java, and C# with a focus on designing and implementing UIs.