As Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of INTUITIVE, William J. Marx, Ph.D., oversees the development of strategies, business, and operations planning for technology and systems required maintain a competitive edge within INTUITIVE’s marketplace. Dr. Marx is responsible for developing the technical vision for the company, aligned with the company’s technology needs, business objectives, and customer missions. He is responsible for setting the overall goals of the company related to Research and Development. He is working to increase INTUITIVE’s technical portfolio and capabilities associated with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), big data analytics, cloud engineering and platform development, digital engineering and digital twins, and data science and visualization. Dr. Marx is responsible for development of INTUITIVE’s growing IP and patent library; his team has been awarded 9 patents and has multiple additional patents pending.
Dr. Marx joined INTUITIVE in 2013, as the Deputy Director of Design and Engineering. Later, he was appointed as Director of Research and Development. In those roles, he was responsible for providing technical direction to existing programs and projects, and for execution of several R&D initiatives. Dr. Marx has also contributed to INTUITIVE’s success in the areas of process improvement, software and technology development, and new business capture and pursuit. Prior to joining INTUITIVE, Dr. Marx held various technical and management positions with Rockwell International, The Boeing Company, and Schafer Corporation. In these capacities, he was responsible for programs for the US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, MDA, NASA MSFC, NASA HQ, and DARPA. He was also an Adjunct Associate Professor at UA-Huntsville where he taught Engineering Economics. He has written software in FORTRAN, C, JOVIAL, Matlab/Simulink, Lisp, Visual Basic, and tk/tcl. He has experience with dozens of software packages associated with flight performance prediction, structural design and optimization, finite element modeling and analysis, trajectory analyses, missile 6-dof performance predictions, and 3D modeling and animation.
Dr. Marx has authored and presented numerous conference papers on topics including aircraft structural design and optimization, hierarchical cost estimating, Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD), Artificial Intelligence (AI), missile guidance and control, miniature propulsion systems, spacecraft architecture design and optimization, and communication networks. He has authored and published refereed articles in the AIAA Journal of Aircraft, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), and most recently in the Journal of Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. He has delivered invited presentations at the National Center for Advanced Technologies on the topic of Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV), and as part of an AIAA Professional Studies Series associated with IPPD for Aerospace Systems. Dr. Marx has authored and co-authored conference papers for multiple symposia including the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference; the Space and Missile Defense Symposium; the AIAA Space Conference; the AIAA Space Exploration Conference; the Army Science Conference; the AIAA/MDA Technology Conference; the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Conference; the AIAA Missile Sciences Conference; the AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference; the AIAA Aircraft Engineering, Technology, and Operations Conference; the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science; the Symposium on Research for Supersonic and Hypersonic Vehicles; the International Congress on Aviation Science; the AIAA Aircraft Systems Conference; and the AIAA/NASA/USAF/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization. Dr. Marx has been a member of the AIAA Systems Engineering Technical Committee. He has received performance and recognition awards from The Boeing Company, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Marx received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1992. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Dr. Marx was a NASA Langley Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) Fellowship awardee.
