Tim Draelos received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of New Mexico with a focus on artificial neural networks. He worked as a research and development engineer at Sandia National Laboratories for 34 years (until retirement in 2021) in the areas of signal processing, cryptography, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. His research has been grounded in the belief that the mind is more than the brain and humans have access to the mind of God and his divine reason. Tim was the founder (in 2017) and chair for the first three years of the annual Sandia Machine Learning and Deep Learning Workshop, a gathering of researchers for collaboration in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL).
