Office Director
Information Innovation Office
Patrick Lincoln assumed the role of office director for the Information Innovation Office (I2O) in October 2025.
In this role, he leads program managers who are funding the development of programs, technologies, and capabilities to ensure a surprising information advantage for the United States and its allies.
Prior to joining DARPA, Lincoln led SRI’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, which creates new technology in information security, system design, speech and natural language, vision and perception, planning and reasoning, and formal methods. Before that, he was the director of the SRI Computer Science Laboratory, executive director of SRI’s program for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Security Research and Development Center, and director of the SRI Center for Computational Biology. He also held positions at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and ETA Systems.
Lincoln has led multidisciplinary groups on high-impact research projects including scalable anomaly detection, strategic reasoning and game theory, and privacy-preserving data sharing. He has published dozens of influential papers, holds dozens of patents, has served on scientific advisory boards for private and publicly-held companies, and has served on government-related panels including the Defense Science Research Council and the Defense Science Board.
His research interests include the fields of formal methods, computer security and privacy, scalable distributed systems, and artificial intelligence, among others.
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University
- B.S., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)