WESLEY LADD

What are your research focus areas?

Trustworthy AI and governance, 3D reconstruction and SLAM, and how depth and geometry from vision pipelines behave when they need to qualify as measurements—not only benchmarks. I outline that research direction in Your Depth Map Is Not a Measurement.

What roles and responsibilities do you hold?

CTO of Polaris EcoSystems; Associate Director of the Center for Internal Auditing and Cybersecurity Risk Management at LSU; and coauthor of Practical AI for Professionals: Understanding, Using, and Surviving AI (Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, 2026).

Where are you based?

I split my time between Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Austin, Texas when I'm not on the road for work.

How do you describe your work at a glance?

I'm an applied researcher and technology leader at the intersection of computer vision, internal auditing, and cybersecurity risk.

Who do you build and write for?

Professionals who need to evaluate and deploy AI without becoming machine learning engineers—practical assurance, not abstract model scores.