Andrew Carney
Program Manager
Information Innovation Office
Andrew Carney is program manager for the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). He is also a program manager at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) where he leads programs and projects to improve health cybersecurity.
Carney was previously a principal researcher in HSBC’s Cybersecurity Science and Analytics group. Before that, he was a technical advisor and contractor at DARPA, supporting research efforts focused on reverse engineering, program analysis, human-machine teaming, and automated program repair. Throughout his career, he has been involved in competitive hacking (called Capture the Flag, or CTF) as both a player and a competition organizer.
Carney has over 15 years of experience in software and hardware vulnerability research, technical education and training, and management of research and development teams. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.