Program Manager
Information Innovation Office
Xenofon Koutsoukos, PhD, joined DARPA as a program manager in June 2025 to develop, execute, and transition programs in cyber-physical systems with emphasis on learning-enabled systems, security and resilience, diagnosis and fault tolerance, distributed algorithms, formal methods, and adaptive resource management.
He is the Thomas R. Walters professor in the Department of Computer Science at the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is also a senior research scientist with the Institute for Software Integrated Systems and holds an appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Koutsoukos received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. He was a member of Research Staff with the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) (2000–2002). He was the recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2004, the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009 from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, and the 2011 NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Award in Technology and Innovation. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the design of resilient cyber-physical systems.
Education
- PhD, University of Notre Dame