Rick Chakra

Rick Chakra

PhD Student and Adjunct Professor
Department of Software Information Systems

Rick Chakra is the Founder and CEO of Armada IQ, a venture-backed startup building autonomous vehicle assessment and benchmarking tools. Rick’s academic research focuses on exploring the boundaries of machine intelligence through simulation. He is also a member of the Adjunct Faculty in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Data Science. Rick was previously a Senior Consultant in Deloitte’s Applied AI practice and has experience in solution architecture, computer vision, and machine learning.