Finley Holt

Finley is a Visiting Scholar in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory working with Prof. Marco Pavone, and an active-duty officer in the United States Marine Corps. Finley's research focuses on embodied agents, with recent work in aerial visual navigation, including language-guided search flight tested with the Air Force Test Pilot School. Finley is now exploring agentic safeguards for embodied reasoners in the lab's NASA University Leadership Initiative project.

Finley holds a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and is at Stanford through the Marine Corps PhD-Technical Program.