
Brian Turnquist
Chief Technology Officer

Brian Turnquist is CTO of Minneapolis AI company, Boon Logic, where he directs Boon’s technical roadmap, identifies differentiated application areas for Boon’s novel unsupervised machine learning technology, and develops those with his team into transformational applications in diverse fields such as pharmaceutical visual inspection, grid edge analytics, predictive analytics, cyber intrusion detection, and cognitive electronic warfare.
Turnquist’s PhD is in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Boon Logic, he spent 20 years in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and was a visiting researcher at the University of Nürnberg and University of Heidelberg. Turnquist has fifteen refereed publications in neuroscience and mathematics.
DAY 2: September 29th, 2026
SESSION: Automated Inspection of Difficult-to-Inspect Products
◆ Why DIPs are a challenge for AVI.
◆ Human cognition and defect detection in DIPs.
◆ Applying high-dimensional unsupervised machine learning to replicate human visual cognition and inspect DIPs.




