Joseph Salmento

MAJ Joseph Salmento

Instructor

Course Executive Officer - CY305

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

joseph.salmento [at] westpoint.edu

CPT Joseph Salmento commissioned as a 2LT Military Intelligence officer in 2014 through the U.S. Military Academy. He served as the Brigade S-2 Operations officer for 3rd Infantry Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and then as the assistant S-2 for 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 3-25 ID. He finished his time in 25ID as the collections platoon leader in D (MI) company, 29th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3-25 ID. He served as the Intelligence Planner for 3rd Armored Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He deployed with 3-1CAV in 2019 to Korea as the S-2 for 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3-1CAV. After leaving Fort Hood, he earned his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He lives with his wife, Amanda, their son Max, and their daughter Rita.

M.S. in Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. in Computer Science - U.S. Military Academy

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles

Current Research

Kamikaze UGV,

Selected Publications

Salmento, J. & Koch, W. (2014, April). White Line Detection in an Autonomous Vehicle. National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2014.

 

Shakarian, Paulo, Joseph Salmento, William Pulleyblank, and John Bertetto. "Reducing gang violence through network influence based targeting of social programs." In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, pp. 1829-1836. 2014.