ADT Commercial, a premier provider of commercial security, fire, life safety, and risk consulting services in the U.S., announced recently that Philippe Sawaya has been selected as its first-ever Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In his new role, Sawaya is leading company efforts in the development and deployment of AI with exceptional analytical capabilities to support the specialized needs of commercial customers across industries.

Sawaya leads newly formed Artificial Intelligence team to help mobilize ADT Commercial’s purposeful innovation efforts by building the tools necessary to automate and streamline commercial customers’ security programs to encourage adoption of future technologies.

Extensive Industry experience

He first joined the organization when ADT Commercial acquired Percepta, a technology company that he co-founded with the mission to develop ethical computer vision-based analytics by utilizing anonymized data—addressing the issue of inherent biases prevalent in many of today’s analytics.

It is precisely this kind of ingenuity and forward-thinking that we know will be key to our success as innovators in the commercial security space, and we’re thrilled to have him as a leader as we look to disrupt and revolutionize the industry,” said Ed Bacco, Vice President, Emerging Technologies for ADT Commercial.

Prior to founding Percepta, Philippe studied Robotics and Computer Vision at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he was selected to join the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) laboratory. His work at GRASP focused on implementing video pose estimation models and training convolutional neural networks.

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