Francis daCosta

Current

Founder and CTO at MeshDynamics

Past

Founder and CTO at Advanced Cybernetics Group
Founder and CTO at Knowmadic
Principal Scientist at The MITRE Corporation

Member Technical Staff at Northrop Aircraft
Applications Engineer at Adept Technology
Consulting Engineer at Ingersoll Rand
Senior Advisory Engineer at Xerox

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles
Stanford University
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

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Connections

247 connections

Industry

Wireless

Websites

Francis daCosta’s Summary

In 2005, Meshdynamics was formed to provide wireless communication products and solutions for the outdoor enterprise. Over 100 active deployments include border security, oil and seismic exploration, video surveillance, mining, military and high speed mobility. Mother patents granted, others in process.

In 1998, co-founded Knowmadic to commercialize patented core technology to robustly scrape snippets from web pages.Customers included Citibank, Chase, Enron, Fidelity, TXU.

In 1992, founded Advanced Cybernetics Group to develop embedded control system software for autonomous systems. Contracts awarded by US Air Force, NIST. Software licensees included IBM, Ingersoll-Rand, Seagate, Motorola.

Educated at Stanford University (MS' 81) and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. (BS '77). Completed postgraduate studies in Artificial Intelligence at UCLA. Member IEEE, MENSA.

Francis daCosta’s Specialties:

Embedded control software, Browser Automation, Wireless Mesh networks.

Francis daCosta’s Experience

Founder and CTO

MeshDynamics

(Wireless industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years)

Technology development commenced 2001 with core team in US and in India. Prototypes demonstrated to US Air Force in 2003. Received ongoing contracts to extend core technology for military use. Company incorporated in 2005. Mother patents granted, others in process.
Founder and CTO

Advanced Cybernetics Group

(Computer Software industry)

July 1992 — July 2002 (10 years 1 month)

Extended adaptive control systems developed for military to OEM licensed software for IBM, Ingersoll-Rand, Adept, Seagate and Motorola and others.
Founder and CTO

Knowmadic

(Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — January 2001 (3 years 1 month)

Wrote software for web page scraping based on triangulation that “locks” on to formatting, structure and content cues in the page to locate snippets of information correctly. Patent granted to Knowmadic.
Principal Scientist

The MITRE Corporation

(Defense & Space industry)

February 1990 — June 1992 (2 years 5 months)

Communication and control for autonomous systems (e.g. multiple untethered mobile robots in a hostile environment ). Validated in war.
Member Technical Staff

Northrop Aircraft

(Defense & Space industry)

May 1986 — February 1990 (3 years 10 months)

Principal Investigator, IR&D program, Integrated Robotic Technology.
Applications Engineer

Adept Technology

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ADEP; Industrial Automation industry)

March 1984 — May 1986 (2 years 3 months)

Wrote vision and force guidance software for real time precision robotic assembly.
Consulting Engineer

Ingersoll Rand

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IR; Machinery industry)

March 1983 — March 1984 (1 year 1 month)

Led team designing sensor guided adaptive robotic system for lock cylinder manufacture. Patents granted to Ingersoll Rand.
Senior Advisory Engineer

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1982 — March 1983 (1 year 3 months)

Designed and built sensor guided robotic disc drive assembly system. First commercial system that integrated real time vision and force sensing into precision robotic assembly. Patents granted to Xerox.

Francis daCosta’s Education

University of California, Los Angeles

Post Graduate, Artificial Intelligence, 1987 — 1989
Stanford University

MS, Engineering, January 1979 — January 1981
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

BS, Engineering, 1972 — 1977