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Dr. Nate Bridges: Helping Airmen and Guardians Achieve Their Greatest Potential

Watch this video to learn more about biomedical engineer Dr. Nate Bridges. His work in cognitive neuroscience looks to bridge the gap between technology and humans — to help our Airmen and Guardians achieve their greatest potential.

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    00:00:03 [Music] hi I'm I'm Dr Nate Bridges a biomedical engineer with the 7- eleventh Human Performance Wing and a lot of my research has been in cognitive neuroscience and what I do at the Air Force research lab is serve as a program lead so I basically direct Technical and programmatically the efforts of team members across the us as well as

    00:00:26 different directorates here at the lab and our a lot of our goal is centered on how do we improve performance particularly how do we personalize learning you know and enable technology so that they can adapt to the individual so that that individual can reach their greatest potential So reading from the brain might fall under what you would call a brain computer interface or BCI

    00:00:49 and that's about reading brain signals that you can then pass through algorithms you know so that might be your machine learning to interpret the meaning of those signals and then you can do something useful with it so if I can read your brain signals like say if I know your level of attention can I start to take technology and I like to say Empower technology so that it can

    00:01:12 change because now it knows something about you and how it might change to make you the better version of yourself I I've gone through multiple stages here at the APL I started off as a student while I was in college I didn't know anything thing about you know like science and research so there's a lot of opportunity you know like I've gone from you know I I come

    00:01:40 out of graduate school I was basically like a postto within a year I was like a principal investigator within like another year or so um I built a team and now I'm a team lead then another you know year or so I'm leading a line of effort another year or so I'm leading a program with over 45 people literally across the United States I don't think I would be able to do that or have the

    00:02:07 same opportunities that I um had here to develop and grow as a leader uh as I would outside of the Air Force I think it it's a much longer path the bottom line is you get to do things here that you can't do other places and you can't put um a I mean money on that I know the cliche would be a price tag on that the science part of me really enjoys playing with cool things and the science

    00:02:35 part of me really enjoys asking the what if question or just trying to understand how does this thing work how does the brain work when you tie to the afrl realizing that the work you're doing could actually save lives like it's it's like a hybrid of like I'm playing I get to play but it's real like I'm working on something that is going to actually do something for some wor someday and so

    00:03:01 that's really exciting like it makes me you know that's the hope that's the dream like that me and my colleagues we can come up with something that actually someone can actually use and actually make them better you need some someone who can serve the people who serve and I think you know that falls into that like so if one day someone is using something I had a part of that's the dream like

    00:03:24 that's awesome like that that I had a hand in making someone's life better I had a hand and improving our defense so yeah it's awesome [Music]