Franklin R. Tanner is the Vice President of Robotics and Computer Vision at Innodata, where he leads scientific strategy and advanced AI development for mission-critical applications. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, he has served as a principal investigator, senior scientist, and engineering leader across industry, government, and national laboratories. His work has advanced the state of the art in computer vision, autonomous systems, and geospatial analytics, including the integration of frontier AI models to improve large-scale data processing and operational performance.

Frank has authored numerous publications in leading venues such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the CVPR conference, and he is the inventor or co-inventor on 11 patents in AI and machine learning. Prior to Innodata, he held leadership roles at Amazon’s Generative AI Innovation Center and at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, where he built and led high-impact AI teams supporting national security missions. His career also includes contributions to NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope programs and advanced research at Sandia National Laboratories.

Academically, he holds an MS in Artificial Intelligence and an MBA both from the Johns Hopkins University.