Dr. O’Brien is a Senior Safety Engineer who performs System FMEAs, Electrical FMEAs, and Electrical FMEDAs for exida Certification. She also performs Hardware and Software certification assessments. Molly is part of a team of experts at exida who are developing a certification scheme for Safety Functions that include Machine Learning. Molly defended her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, and her doctoral thesis focuses on predicting Neural Network performance in novel operating domains. She has research experience in perception, robotics, and medical imaging. Molly received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in French and Francophone Studies from Pennsylvania State University.