[{"nid":1921,"title":"Catherine Campbell","view_node":"\/about\/people\/catherine-campbell","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECatherine Campbell, Ph.D., was named the deputy director of the Biological Technologies Office in August 2026. She joined DARPA as a program manager in January 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring her tenure at DARPA, Campbell has focused on leveraging advanced biotechnology to safeguard military personnel and assets in harsh operational environments, enhance environmental resilience, accelerate the discovery of medical countermeasures, study both human and animal models of disease, and secure biological supply chains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to coming to DARPA, Campbell designed informatics systems for government biodefense applications, facilitated in silico identification of medical countermeasures and developed methods for pathogen identification and detection. Past projects included directing the development of informatics tools, developing institution-wide training programs for National Institutes of Health researchers, and participating in collaborative neurological disease research and customized data analysis with both clinical and basic science investigators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research work has encompassed laboratory experiments as well as statistical and bioinformatic analysis of several important diseases and threats, including biodefense agents, Gaucher\u2019s disease, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome and neurofibromatosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe has published 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, given numerous technical presentations and served as a reviewer on 15 government science and technology review panels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e9f1cfbc7ffdcb35bba107b0894beedb5\u0022\u003EPh.D., Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, University of Miami\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7a1ae0d2303f0813f6804062f0f4e8e2\u0022\u003EM.S., Marine Biology, University of Miami\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec10fc13e92491f9adc8e7d5206aa5437\u0022\u003EB.S., Microbiology, Cornell University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Catherine Campbell, Ph.D., has interests that focus on the analysis of population-based experiments designed to study both human and animal models of disease.","summary_trimmed":"Catherine Campbell, Ph.D., has interests that focus on the analysis of population-based experiments designed to study both human and animal models of disease.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Catherine","field_last_name":"Campbell","field_role_1":"1095","field_role":"Deputy Director","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Maritime|Materials Science|Supply Chain and Logistics|Biological|Agriculture","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222022-01-30T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESun, 01\/30\/2022 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2022-01-30","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1923,"title":"Jonathan Hoffman","view_node":"\/about\/people\/jonathan-hoffman","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJonathan Hoffman, Ph.D., is the deputy director of the Multi X Office (MXO).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include quantum sensing and information science, PNT, optics, and photonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe joined DARPA in November 2021 as a program manager. Previously, Hoffman was a research scientist at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command\u2019s (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL). At ARL, he co-developed the Low-Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (LC CSAC) program and was the Army IPT lead on the Next Generation DoD Atomic Clock (NGAC) program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e994238681bfcdd39e9cc55466dc696dc\u0022\u003EPh.D., Physics, University of Maryland\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e1efcc02be3661eb6dbc19d832d4d1c89\u0022\u003EM.S., Physics, University of Maryland\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e01e03d2e4e814dc8170894cb1d934d97\u0022\u003EB.A., Mathematics, Boston University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3ffc7dcd311818dc90519a9d83be00da\u0022\u003EB.A., Physics, Boston University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Jonathan Hoffman, Ph.D., has research interests that include quantum sensing and information science, PNT, optics, and photonics.","summary_trimmed":"Jonathan Hoffman, Ph.D., has research interests that include quantum sensing and information science, PNT, optics, and photonics.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Jonathan","field_last_name":"Hoffman","field_role_1":"1095","field_role":"Deputy Director","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Quantum|Sensors|Photonics|Positioning Navigation Timing (PNT)","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222021-11-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 11\/01\/2021 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2021-11-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1948,"title":"John-Francis Mergen","view_node":"\/about\/people\/john-francis-mergen","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn-Francis Mergen assumed the role of deputy office director for the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) in September 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this position, he provides technical leadership and works with program managers to envision, create, and transition capabilities that ensure enduring information advantage for the United States and its allies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMergen joined DARPA as a program manager in January 2020 to develop, execute, and transition programs in cybersecurity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore DARPA, he was chief scientist and a Senior Raytheon Fellow at Raytheon BBN Technologies. His responsibilities included maintaining excellence in cybersecurity technology development and providing technical leadership. Prior to his role at Raytheon BBN Technologies, Mergen was the Verizon Federal Networks CTO, responsible for research in the areas of telecommunications and information management. Earlier in his career, Mergen was with Genuity, Alex. Brown \u0026amp; Sons, General Electric, Electronic Data Systems, and SAIC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a private pilot and holds an amateur radio operator advanced class license.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e8b0c2d1a8dd2b6c77b1f4fbffab74661\u0022\u003EM.S., Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EConcentration in Information Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e49e3c0be861b3d567f175409414a261e\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, Yale University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eebb35a5403648dd150e9fc04442f88a9\u0022\u003EB.S., Operations Research, Yale University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EPodcast\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about Mergen and IPTO in this podcast episode.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"John-Francis Mergen provides technical leadership and works with program managers to envision, create, and transition capabilities that ensure enduring information advantage for the United States and its allies.","summary_trimmed":"John-Francis Mergen provides technical leadership and works with program managers to envision, create, and transition capabilities that ensure enduring information advantage for the United States and its allies.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"John-Francis","field_last_name":"Mergen","field_role_1":"1095","field_role":"Deputy Director","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Adaptability|Cyber|Hardware","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222020-01-30T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 01\/30\/2020 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2020-01-30","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":3856,"title":"Jim Gimlett ","view_node":"\/about\/people\/jim-gimlett","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJim Gimlett, Ph.D., was named the deputy director of the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) in January 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe joined DARPA and was a program manager in DSO from 2013-2019, managing programs in quantum sensing, transductional materials, physics-informed AI, and broad-spectrum countermeasures for viral diseases. His research interests include quantum sensing and metrology, nanoscale engineered materials, collaborative autonomous systems for harsh environments, and novel data-efficient AI for modeling and controlling complex dynamic systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Gimlett served as Chief Scientist for Systems Technology and Research (STR), where he led several programs on AI-assisted design and modeling and novel undersea systems. He has served as chief technology officer for two startup companies, Alternative Power Generation of Canada, investigating low-energy nuclear reactions, and Network Elements, Inc., a venture-funded ISO 9000 company that pioneered the development of plug-and-play optical network modules for high-speed optical switches.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGimlett also served as Director of the Advanced Lightwave Research group at Bellcore\/Telcordia, where he initiated a variety of research programs focused on high-speed optoelectronic devices and multiwavelength and coherent optical systems. As manager of the Advanced Systems Research group at Tektronix Labs, he served as a principal investigator for the Department of Defense on several advanced network device development programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGimlett also worked as a researcher at the California Institute of Technology and the Swiss Institute of Nuclear Research, investigating time reversal violations in the gamma decay of nuclei polarized at milli-Kelvin temperatures, strong interaction shifts in pionic hydrogen and deuterium via pionic X-ray spectroscopy, and neutrino oscillations at a nuclear reactor in Switzerland.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has served as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and on the board of the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics of the American Physical Society. He holds several patents in optical networking and has numerous publications on physics and optical communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Jim Gimlett, Ph.D., has research interests which include quantum sensing and metrology, nanoscale engineered materials, collaborative autonomous systems for harsh environments, and novel data-efficient AI for modeling and controlling complex dynamic systems.","summary_trimmed":"Jim Gimlett, Ph.D., has research interests which include quantum sensing and metrology, nanoscale engineered materials, collaborative autonomous systems for harsh environments, and novel data-efficient AI for modeling and controlling complex dynamic systems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Jim","field_last_name":"Gimlett ","field_role_1":"1095","field_role":"Deputy Director","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Complexity|Quantum","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-01-20T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 01\/20\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-01-20","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4351,"title":"Tyler McQuade","view_node":"\/about\/people\/tyler-mcquade","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETyler McQuade rejoined DARPA in August 2025 as the agency\u2019s deputy director.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe most recently served as the chief of research and development at On Demand Pharmaceuticals, as well as an advisor to leadership at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), providing guidance on how to find and nurture program manager candidates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe previously served at DARPA from 2013-2017, first as a program manager, during which he focused on the acceleration of new molecule discovery for medical, military, and civilian applications, and then as the deputy director and acting office director for DARPA\u2019s Defense Sciences Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImmediately following his DARPA tenure, Tyler joined the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Medicines for All Institute as Chief Technology Officer and Virginia Commonwealth University as a professor of chemistry and life science engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA in 2013, McQuade was a professor of chemistry. During his academic career, McQuade received numerous awards, including the Beckman Young Investigator and MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35. In addition, McQuade was a visiting group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and a visiting professor in the Food and Nutrition Toxicology Department at the ETH-Zurich.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was a National Institutes of Health Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT prior to his independent research career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e61699d5ccbbee8c77f181d6806f0f282\u0022\u003EPh.D., Chemistry, University of Wisconsin\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eae1b7daf799d75c3c743f7fd06d063e3\u0022\u003EB.S., Chemistry and Biology, University of California, Irvine\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Tyler McQuade rejoined DARPA in August 2025 as the agency\u2019s deputy director.  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There he developed system requirements and led modeling and simulation to inform relevant satellite constellation architectures and capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBryant was a physicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), where he carried out research and development in maritime remote sensing, undersea warfare, and space programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to APL, Bryant was a scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), where he led research projects on advanced radar imaging. Previously, he performed advanced exploitation for NGA analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Physics and Mathematics, Vanderbilt University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Adam Bryant, Ph.D., has research interests in radar remote sensing, space-based sensing capabilities, and satellite constellation architectures and capabilities.","summary_trimmed":"Adam Bryant, Ph.D., has research interests in radar remote sensing, space-based sensing capabilities, and satellite constellation architectures and capabilities.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Adam","field_last_name":"Bryant","field_role_1":"1095","field_role":"Deputy Director","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Maritime|Sensors|Systems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-01-28T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EWed, 01\/28\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-01-28","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4685,"title":"John Main","view_node":"\/about\/people\/john-main","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Main, Ph.D., is the deputy director of the Tactical Technology Office, a role he assumed in July 2023. Prior to this assignment, he was associate vice president of research at George Mason University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMain has spent much of his career developing new technologies and businesses. He started as an engineering professor teaching and running a research lab developing adaptive optics. That led to a research program funded by DARPA, which led to two terms as a DARPA program manager in the Defense Sciences Office where he created programs in high-speed swimming, diver navigation, improvised weapons, climbing tools, and shape-changing materials. He then served three years as chief scientist in the Research Directorate at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has also founded a manufacturing company specializing in medical research instruments and served as chief operating officer of a startup company providing mission rehearsal simulation software.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ecccabef2bb57ac4c4e3009328d8a1dbd\u0022\u003EPh.D., Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e69c6596fa96b871f16eb096261fa3829\u0022\u003EM.S., Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7d33a7c584c9ecfb760d4f09e4b406e2\u0022\u003EB.S., Physics and Mathematics, Western Kentucky University\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"John Main is deputy director of the Tactical Technology Office, a role he assumed in July 2023. Prior to this assignment, he was associate vice president of research at George Mason University.","summary_trimmed":"John Main is deputy director of the Tactical Technology Office, a role he assumed in July 2023. Prior to this assignment, he was associate vice president of research at George Mason University.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"John","field_last_name":"Main","field_role_1":"1095","field_role":"Deputy Director","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Manufacturing","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-07-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESat, 07\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-07-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1809,"title":"Michael Mulqueen","view_node":"\/about\/people\/michael-mulqueen","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Mulqueen, Ph.D., joined DARPA in July 2024 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. His area of focus will be on defense article manufacturing and related technologies. He has a broad engineering background including work in autonomy, sensors (RADAR, LiDAR, and infrared focal plane arrays), microelectronics advanced packaging, energy, and materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Mulqueen was chief technology officer of HRL Laboratories in Los Angeles, Calif. He also served as director of programs for General Motors, a co-owner of HRL. He provided technical leadership on a number of programs and led the HRL effort to create externally funded new-start companies. 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Col. Clark McGehee, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in June 2024. His focus areas include the defense industrial base, manufacturing technology, next-generation design and systems engineering tools, and advanced aerospace vehicle concepts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining DARPA, McGehee served as the director of operations and chief engineer for a flight test squadron conducting technology demonstrations for the US Air Force. Previously, he led the F-35 air vehicle test team through the completion of system development and demonstration. 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Clark McGehee, Ph.D., has focus areas that include the defense industrial base, manufacturing technology, next-generation design and systems engineering tools, and advanced aerospace vehicle concepts.","summary_trimmed":"Lt. Col. Clark McGehee, Ph.D., has focus areas that include the defense industrial base, manufacturing technology, next-generation design and systems engineering tools, and advanced aerospace vehicle concepts.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Clark","field_last_name":"McGehee","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Air|Autonomy","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-06-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESat, 06\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-06-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1812,"title":"Jeffrey Zaleski","view_node":"\/about\/people\/jeffrey-zaleski","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJeffrey Zaleski, Ph.D., joined DARPA in August 2024 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office. His research interests are in the fields of metals in medicine, bioinorganic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, and materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Zaleski was a chemistry professor and vice provost for research at Indiana University. There, he taught extensively, published over 100 research papers, gave more than 90 conference presentations, and held four patents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is an associate editor of Frontiers in Chemical Biology-Molecular Sciences and has served on numerous editorial and scientific review boards. A dedicated mentor, he has supervised over 65 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZaleski has received many honors, including the Bicentennial Medal and the Trustee\u2019s Teaching Award from Indiana University. 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His areas of interest include health, chemistry, materials science, environment, and organics.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Jeffrey","field_last_name":"Zaleski","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Chemistry|Health|Materials Science|Agriculture","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-08-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 08\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-08-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1814,"title":"Derek Bernsen","view_node":"\/about\/people\/derek-s-bernsen","body":"\u003Cp\u003EDerek S. Bernsen joined DARPA\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022\/about\/offices\/ipto\u0022\u003EInformation Processing Techniques Office (IPTO)\u003C\/a\u003E as a program manager in July 2024.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests focus on cyberspace operations, cybersecurity, program analysis, automation, and other defense mission areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his position at DARPA, Bernsen spent more than a decade in the cyber industry in the military and the private sectors. 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Bernsen\u0027s research interests focus on cyberspace operations, cybersecurity, program analysis, automation, and other defense mission areas.","summary_trimmed":"Derek S. Bernsen\u0027s research interests focus on cyberspace operations, cybersecurity, program analysis, automation, and other defense mission areas.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Derek","field_last_name":"Bernsen","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Analytics|Communication Processes and Technology|Networking|Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)|Cyber|Privacy and Security","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-07-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 07\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-07-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1817,"title":"James Shoemaker","view_node":"\/about\/people\/james-shoemaker","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJames R. Shoemaker, Ph.D., rejoined DARPA in 2024 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office, having previously served as a DARPA program manager from 2000 to 2006 while on active duty in the Air Force.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has extensive experience in the Department of Defense focused on rapid research and development demonstrations and fielding, focused on space and aerospace systems, science and technology, system engineering and integration, technology transition, and acquisition. His other interests include complex systems, atomic and molecular physics, and novel sensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to returning to DARPA, Shoemaker supported special programs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He is a retired Air Force officer and served in numerous acquisition and scientific roles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Nuclear Science, Air Force Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"James R. Shoemaker, Ph.D., has extensive experience in the Department of Defense focused on rapid research and development demonstrations and fielding.","summary_trimmed":"James R. Shoemaker, Ph.D., has extensive experience in the Department of Defense focused on rapid research and development demonstrations and fielding.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"James","field_last_name":"Shoemaker","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Air|Complexity|Sensors|Space","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-06-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESat, 06\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-06-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1818,"title":"Matthew Sambora","view_node":"\/about\/people\/matthew-sambora","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew D. Sambora, Ph.D., joined DARPA in 2024 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has extensive experience in the Department of Defense focused on space and aerospace systems, science and technology, system engineering and integration, technology transition, and acquisition. His other interests include autonomous operations and remote sensing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore DARPA, Sambora was the Chief of Autonomy Integration at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, where he led efforts to integrate GEOINT into autonomous systems. He is a retired Air Force officer and served in numerous acquisition and engineering roles including as a Senior Military Professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology where he led the Center for Space Research and Assurance and taught graduate-level courses in engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, US Air Force Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Electrical Engineering, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.M.O.A.S., Military Operational Art and Science, USAF Air Command and Staff College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.A., Procurement and Acquisitions Management, Webster University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Matthew D. Sambora, Ph.D., has a focus on space and aerospace systems, science and technology, system engineering and integration, technology transition, acquisition, autonomous operations, and remote sensing.","summary_trimmed":"Matthew D. Sambora, Ph.D., has a focus on space and aerospace systems, science and technology, system engineering and integration, technology transition, acquisition, autonomous operations, and remote sensing.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Matthew","field_last_name":"Sambora","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Air|Autonomy|Complexity|Space","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-03-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 03\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-03-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1822,"title":"Andrew Carney","view_node":"\/about\/people\/andrew-carney","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Carney is program manager for the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). 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His research interests include advanced wideband hybrid optical-wireless architectures for achieving unprecedented spectrum agility and jamming mitigation capability, and deep space communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Galli was a chief scientist and senior manager heading the wireless and optical department at Peraton Labs, where he worked on positioning, integrated sensing and comms, aeronautical telemetry, 5G, spectrum sharing, high beam-bandwidth product systems, initial link establishment procedures, and microwave photonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to theory, practice, and standardization of power line communications networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Electrical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Electrical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Stefano Galli, Ph.D., has research interests that include advanced wideband hybrid optical-wireless architectures for achieving unprecedented spectrum agility and jamming mitigation capability, and deep space communications.","summary_trimmed":"Stefano Galli, Ph.D., has research interests that include advanced wideband hybrid optical-wireless architectures for achieving unprecedented spectrum agility and jamming mitigation capability, and deep space communications.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Stefano","field_last_name":"Galli","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Communication Processes and Technology|Space|Photonics|Positioning Navigation Timing (PNT)","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-05-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EWed, 05\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-05-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1824,"title":"Thomas Schenkel","view_node":"\/about\/people\/thomas-schenkel","body":"\u003Cp\u003EThomas Schenkel, Ph.D., joined DARPA in the Defense Science Office in May 2024.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis interests include radiation science, particle accelerators, quantum technologies, and concepts of information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchenkel joins DARPA from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has been a senior scientist and program head in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division with a project portfolio related to qubits, beams and fusion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Physics, Goethe University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Physics and Philosophy, Goethe University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Thomas Schenkel, Ph.D., has research interests include radiation science, particle accelerators, quantum technologies, and concepts of information.","summary_trimmed":"Thomas Schenkel, Ph.D., has research interests include radiation science, particle accelerators, quantum technologies, and concepts of information.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Thomas","field_last_name":"Schenkel","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Quantum|Sensors","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-05-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EWed, 05\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-05-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1827,"title":"Tamer Refaei","view_node":"\/about\/people\/tamer-refaei","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETamer Refaei, Ph.D., joined DARPA in April 2024 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology office. His research interests include resilience in tactical networks using principles of software-defined networking, programmable data planes, traffic engineering, and generative AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Refaei was the head of research and development within the Infrastructure \u0026amp; Networking Innovation Center at the MITRE Corporation. He led and shaped multiple government-sponsored and independent research and development (IR\u0026amp;D) projects that explored the application of cutting-edge technologies to enhance network resilience under disrupted, denied, intermittently-connected, and low-bandwidth (D-DIL) conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERefaei also supported the NASA Disruption Tolerant Networking project. 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Dewhurst also worked as a senior scientist at a defense research and development firm, a risk management data scientist in the financial industry, and a computer scientist at a federally funded research and development center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Complex Systems and Data Science, University of Vermont\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Mathematics, University of Vermont\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.A., Economics, Mathematics, and Political Science, University of Vermont\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"David Rushing Dewhurst, Ph.D., has research interests which include financial intelligence, the design of economic mechanisms and financial assets, capital markets, and payment systems.","summary_trimmed":"David Rushing Dewhurst, Ph.D., has research interests which include financial intelligence, the design of economic mechanisms and financial assets, capital markets, and payment systems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"David","field_last_name":"Dewhurst","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Analytics|Complexity|Data|Economic Systems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-04-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 04\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-04-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1830,"title":"Tabitha Dodson","view_node":"\/about\/people\/tabitha-dodson","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETabitha Dodson, Ph.D., joined DARPA in 2018 and the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) as a program manager in April 2024.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer interest areas include advanced space payloads, electric propulsion, astrodynamics, nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion, radioisotopes, advanced nuclear reactors (fission and fusion), plasma physics and plasma engineering, nuclear\/quantum\/particle physics, and hypersonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDodson came to DARPA in 2018 to provide her expertise in the creation of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program in the agency\u0027s Tactical Technology Office. Prior to joining DSO, Dodson was the DRACO program manager and before that she served as chief engineer and deputy program manager of the DRACO program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDodson has previously worked as an adjunct professor of aerospace engineering at the United States Naval Academy and as an adjunct professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). Dodson has worked in various other positions within and for the U.S. Air Force (now U.S. Space Force), including as an aerospace engineer and senior scientist in the fields of spacecraft engineering, space missions and operations, space power, and space propulsion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe was also a NASA fellow conducting research in nuclear materials for nuclear thermal rockets. Dodson has performed research utilizing the Department of Defense High Performance Computing supercomputer on radiation effects on potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals used in the National Ignition Facility for fusion research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Applied Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Space Policy, George Washington University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Physics, West Virginia University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Sociology, West Virginia University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Anthropology, West Virginia University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Tabitha Dodson, Ph.D., has interest areas which include advanced space payloads, electric propulsion, astrodynamics, nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion, radioisotopes, advanced nuclear reactors (fission and fusion), plasma physics and plasma engineering, nuclear\/quantum\/particle physics, and hypersonics. ","summary_trimmed":"Tabitha Dodson, Ph.D., has interest areas which include advanced space payloads, electric propulsion, astrodynamics, nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion, radioisotopes, advanced nuclear reactors (fission and fusion), plasma physics and plasma engineering, nuclear\/quantum\/particle physics, and hypersonics. ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Tabitha","field_last_name":"Dodson","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Air|Space","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222018-04-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESun, 04\/01\/2018 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2018-04-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1832,"title":"Eric Davis","view_node":"\/about\/people\/eric-davis","body":"\u003Cp\u003EEric Davis, Ph.D., joined DARPA in February 2024 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office. His research interests include artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-machine teaming, and data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Davis was the principal scientist of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human-machine teaming at Galois, where he led programs that focus on the creation of cognitive architectures to allow next-generation artificially intelligent systems to team with humans in real-world environments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to Galois, Davis was a professor and director of the Trustworthy Data Engineering Laboratory at Iowa State University and the University of Miami where he was named a Frontiers of Engineering Education faculty member by the National Academy of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Computer Science, The College of William and Mary\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Eric Davis, Ph.D., has research interests that include artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-machine teaming, and data science.","summary_trimmed":"Eric Davis, Ph.D., has research interests that include artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-machine teaming, and data science.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Eric","field_last_name":"Davis","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Autonomy|Cognitive Science|Trust, Technology, and National Security|Machine Learning (ML)|Uncrewed","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-02-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 02\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-02-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1835,"title":"Phillip Smith","view_node":"\/about\/people\/phillip-smith","body":"\u003Cp\u003ELt. Col. Phillip \u0022Donna\u0022 Smith joined DARPA in September 2023 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAreas of expertise are in logistics solutions, unmanned aerial systems, and land warfare. He is particularly interested in\u003Cstrong\u003E how to fundamentally change the way that land warfare is fought through innovative solutions.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve. Prior to DARPA, he was as an AV-8B Harrier pilot with a deployment on a Marine Expeditionary Unit with combat time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith was a program manager at USMC Training and Education Command, then the futures and forecasting lead for the USMC\u0027s Rapid Capabilities Office, then deputy director of the Future Technologies Office at the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab\u2019s Science and Technology division.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7a76eeb12a173686ec27c6db0aa3746d\u0022\u003EM.A., International Affairs, University of Oklahoma\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022edf677616a0b194f9df784ec6d3f876ef\u0022\u003EB.A., International Business and Politics, State University of New York at Brockport\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e81c1ffe7ad6e98f1f2844974f326b836\u0022\u003EB.A., International Studies, State University of New York at Brockport\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Lt. Col. Phillip \u0022Donna\u0022 Smith\u0027s areas of expertise are in logistics solutions, long range kill chains and land warfare. He is particularly interested in how to fundamentally change the way that land warfare is fought through innovative solutions.","summary_trimmed":"Lt. Col. Phillip \u0022Donna\u0022 Smith\u0027s areas of expertise are in logistics solutions, long range kill chains and land warfare. He is particularly interested in how to fundamentally change the way that land warfare is fought through innovative solutions.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Phillip","field_last_name":"Smith","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Air|Manufacturing|Supply Chain and Logistics|Uncrewed","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-09-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 09\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-09-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1838,"title":"Ian Higgins","view_node":"\/about\/people\/ian-higgins","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECmdr. Ian Higgins, U.S. Navy, joined DARPA in June 2023 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. His areas of interest include advanced aerospace technologies, next-generation aerospace vehicle concepts, hypersonics, human-machine teaming, complex weapon systems, behavioral and cognitive psychology, and flight test.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to becoming a DARPA program manager, Higgins was a Chief Developmental Test Pilot for the U.S. Navy. Earlier in his career, he served as a developmental flight test pilot responsible for testing involving mission systems, aircraft loads envelope expansion, ordnance separation, air-to-air refueling, flying qualities, and carrier suitability for the FA-18 and the EA-18G aircraft. Operationally, Higgins completed a carrier-based deployment flying the FA-18.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Aerospace Engineering, United States Naval Academy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Cmdr. Ian Higgins, U.S. Navy, has areas of interest that include advanced aerospace technologies, next-generation aerospace vehicle concepts, hypersonics, human-machine teaming, complex weapon systems, behavioral and cognitive psychology, and flight test.","summary_trimmed":"Cmdr. Ian Higgins, U.S. Navy, has areas of interest that include advanced aerospace technologies, next-generation aerospace vehicle concepts, hypersonics, human-machine teaming, complex weapon systems, behavioral and cognitive psychology, and flight test.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Ian","field_last_name":"Higgins","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Air|Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Uncrewed","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-06-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 06\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-06-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1839,"title":"Pedro Irazoqui","view_node":"\/about\/people\/pedro-irazoqui","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPedro Irazoqui, Ph.D., joined DARPA in January 2024 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office. His research seeks to address the need for a more capable fighting force in extreme environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Irazoqui served as a full professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, where his research focused on the development of wearable and implantable wireless medical devices for treating diverse neural pathologies with a particular focus on epilepsy. Irazoqui joined Johns Hopkins from Purdue University, where he was the Reilly Professor of Biomedical Engineering, as well as served as associate head for research in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and as interim head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. While at Purdue, he founded their Center for Implantable Devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has served on numerous editorial boards. A dedicated mentor, he has supervised over 60 graduate students and 80 undergraduates. Irazoqui has received many honors, including the Purdue Excellence in Research Award, and was a finalist for the prestigious Institute of Engineering and Technology AF Harvey Research Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e55f17a1bcde3985d4f553b7f0a8e1fb7\u0022\u003EPh.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e4f9ff84b1faac62f7b47b3d1314c7459\u0022\u003EM.S., Electrical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e0fe51cdf37ff737947b01dfb8fe00943\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Pedro Irazoqui, Ph.D., has research that is focused on the development of wearable and implantable wireless medical devices for treating diverse neural pathologies with a particular focus on epilepsy with areas of focus in Artificial Intelligence, biological, health, casualty care, and neuroscience. ","summary_trimmed":"Pedro Irazoqui, Ph.D., has research that is focused on the development of wearable and implantable wireless medical devices for treating diverse neural pathologies with a particular focus on epilepsy with areas of focus in Artificial Intelligence, biological, health, casualty care, and neuroscience. 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His areas of interest include intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), satellites, and space. ","summary_trimmed":"Wade Schwartzkopf, Ph.D., has research interests include synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radio frequency (RF) sensors and systems, and signal processing. His areas of interest include intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), satellites, and space. 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He then joined the faculty at Princeton University, where he taught chemical engineering and applied and computational mathematics for 31 years. In 2017, he received emeritus status at Princeton and joined Johns Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout his career, his work has revolved around some form of nonlinear dynamics (instabilities and bifurcation algorithms, spatiotemporal patterns, and data science in the 1990s; nonlinear identification; multiscale modeling; and, most recently, data science\/machine learning).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has been named a Packard Fellow, a Presidential Young Investigator, and the Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 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She has been a principal investigator on numerous U.S. government research, including programs with DARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese programs spanned a range of applications of behavioral science to national security, including human-machine teaming, counter-insurgency, cognitive security, neurological bases of behavior, sociocultural systems, and advanced research evaluation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is a member of the Information Professionals Association and the Association for Psychological Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Cognitive Psychology, Claremont Graduate University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Cognitive Psychology, Claremont Graduate University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Victoria Romero, Ph.D., joined DARPA to develop, execute, and transition programs in cognitive security and the integration of behavioral science into artificial intelligence development and evaluation.","summary_trimmed":"Victoria Romero, Ph.D., joined DARPA to develop, execute, and transition programs in cognitive security and the integration of behavioral science into artificial intelligence development and evaluation.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Victoria","field_last_name":"Romero","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Analytics|Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Cognitive Science","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-09-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 09\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-09-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1856,"title":"Patrick Shafto","view_node":"\/about\/people\/patrick-shafto","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPatrick Shafto, Ph.D., joined DARPA in September 2023 to develop, execute, and transition programs in artificial intelligence (AI), mathematics, machine learning, and human-machine symbiosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShafto is a professor of mathematics and computer science at Rutgers University, and for the two years before joining DARPA, he was a member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Shafto\u2019s research focuses on the mathematical foundations of learning agents, bridging mathematics, machine learning, AI, and cognitive science. He co-founded and served as chief scientist for Redpoll, a startup focused on human-centered AI, from 2019-2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShafto was a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and held the Henry Rutgers term chair in data science.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Cognitive Science Society. His work has been published in more than 100 papers related to mathematical, computational, and empirical perspectives on learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Northeastern University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Northeastern University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Northeastern University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Patrick Shafto, Ph.D., joined DARPA to develop, execute, and transition programs in artificial intelligence (AI), mathematics, machine learning, and human-machine symbiosis.","summary_trimmed":"Patrick Shafto, Ph.D., joined DARPA to develop, execute, and transition programs in artificial intelligence (AI), mathematics, machine learning, and human-machine symbiosis.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Patrick","field_last_name":"Shafto","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Cognitive Science|Formal Methods","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-09-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 09\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-09-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1857,"title":"Keith Whitener","view_node":"\/about\/people\/keith-whitener","body":"\u003Cp\u003EKeith Whitener, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office in September 2023.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis interests include catalysis, photochemistry and spectroscopy, and the chemistry and physics of novel classes of materials. These include nanomaterials, active matter, 2D materials, and their applications to energy, logistics, sensing, and health.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeith comes to DARPA from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where he was a staff scientist in the Surface Nanoscience and Sensor Technology Section leading research programs on biomimetic materials for force health protection as well as the integration of nanomaterials with biological systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to this, Keith was a National Research Council postdoctoral research associate at NRL studying the chemical modification of graphene and its application to electronics, spintronics, and surface engineering. He also performed postdoctoral work in polymer synthesis and catalysis at the University of Colorado at Boulder.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Chemical Physics, Yale University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Keith Whitener, Ph.D., has research interests that include catalysis, photochemistry and spectroscopy, and the chemistry and physics of novel classes of materials.","summary_trimmed":"Keith Whitener, Ph.D., has research interests that include catalysis, photochemistry and spectroscopy, and the chemistry and physics of novel classes of materials.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Keith","field_last_name":"Whitener","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Chemistry|Materials Science","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-09-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 09\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-09-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1858,"title":"Nathaniel Bastian","view_node":"\/about\/people\/nathaniel-bastian","body":"\u003Cp\u003ENathaniel D. Bastian, Ph.D., U.S. Army, joined DARPA in August 2023 as a program manager to design, develop, execute, and transition programs in artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a colonel in the U.S. Army, he also dually serves as the chief technology officer of the Army Human Resources Enterprise within the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Army, G-1 (Personnel). He previously served as associate professor within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, as well as deputy director of the Robotics Research Center (RRC) and principal investigator of the Laboratory for AI Research \u0026amp; Engineering (LAIRE) within RRC. He also previously served in roles as chief scientist, Data \u0026amp; Decision Sciences division chief, and chief data scientist at the Army Cyber Institute (ACI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining USMA, Bastian served as the chief AI architect at the Department of War\u2019s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, operations research scientist at the ACI\/USMA, and analytics officer at the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. He also previously served as a UH-60 Black Hawk MEDEVAC aviator with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, including a year-long deployment supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBastian was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, a Fulbright U.S. student fellow to the Netherlands, and served on DARPA\u2019s Information Science and Technology Study Group. He also served as a distinguished visitor professor at the National Security Agency and a visiting research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a senior member of INFORMS and IEEE, as well as an active member of MORS, ACM, and AAAI. His work has been included in more than 200 journal articles, conference papers, and books.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C!--\r\n    \u003Cp\u003E\r\n            Nathaniel D. Bastian, Ph.D., U.S. Army, joined DARPA in August 2023 as a program manager to design, develop, execute, and transition programs in artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber operations. His primary research interests include designing and developing intelligent, assured, human-aware, data-centric, and decision-driven capabilities that enable decision advantage for multi-domain operations across the complex, contested, congested, and evolving battlefield.\r\n    \u003C\/p\u003E\r\n    \u003Cp\u003E\r\n            As a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, he joins DARPA from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy, where he currently serves as deputy director of the Robotics Research Center (RRC) and principal investigator of the Laboratory for AI Research \u0026amp; Engineering (LAIRE) within RRC. He previously served in roles as chief scientist, Data \u0026amp; Decision Sciences division chief, and chief data scientist at the Army Cyber Institute (ACI). He also teaches courses and advises cadets in systems engineering, mathematical sciences, and computer science as a West Point faculty member.\r\n    \u003C\/p\u003E\r\n    \u003Cp\u003E\r\n            Prior to joining West Point, Bastian served as the chief AI architect at the Department of War\u2019s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, operations research scientist at the ACI\/USMA, and analytics officer at the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. He also previously served as a UH-60 Black Hawk MEDEVAC aviator with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, including a year-long deployment supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.\r\n    \u003C\/p\u003E\r\n    \u003Cp\u003E\r\n            Bastian was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, a Fulbright U.S. student fellow to the Netherlands, and served on DARPA\u2019s Information Science and Technology Study Group. 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Bastian, Ph.D., U.S. Army, has research interests that span the security, assurance, and robustness of AI systems, AI for autonomous cyber decision-support, intelligent battlefield command and control systems, data security and alternative computing, cognitive security, and cyber-human systems engineering.","summary_trimmed":"Nathaniel D. Bastian, Ph.D., U.S. Army, has research interests that span the security, assurance, and robustness of AI systems, AI for autonomous cyber decision-support, intelligent battlefield command and control systems, data security and alternative computing, cognitive security, and cyber-human systems engineering.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Nathaniel","field_last_name":"Bastian","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Algorithms|Analytics|Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Cyber|Data|Visualization and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Technologies","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-08-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 08\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-08-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1859,"title":"Benjamin Grosof","view_node":"\/about\/people\/benjamin-grosof","body":"\u003Cp\u003EBenjamin Grosof, Ph.D., joined DARPA in the Defense Sciences Office in September 2023.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis interests in artificial intelligence foundations include meta logic programs; scalability; deeply combining logical knowledge representation and reasoning with machine learning and natural language (e.g., neuro-symbolic); explainability and interpretability; trustworthiness and critical thinking; autonomy, and human-machine interaction. His interests in AI-enabled applications include: defense intelligence, operations, planning, and information systems integration; finance, legal and policy; e-commerce and supply chain; health care, and science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA as a program manager, Grosof was founding CEO and chief scientist at Coherent Knowledge, an AI startup maker of open-source tools for highly explainable decision support via query answering. He has pioneered technology invention and industry standards for knowledge graphs and expressively flexible semantic rules, their acquisition from natural language, and a wide variety of applications. 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","summary_trimmed":"The research interests of Mukund Vengalattore, Ph.D., include harnessing principles of quantum science and non-equilibrium quantum dynamics to create new capabilities in the broad areas of quantum-enhanced sensors; positioning, navigation and timing (PNT); quantum information science and related quantum technologies. 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His research interests also include quantum-classical correlations and their use as hybrid sensors; atomic-layer perfection in manufacturing of classical mesoscale devices; radio front ends that think and act at lightning speeds; and breaking the non-recoverable expense bottleneck for defect-free manufacturing of wafer substrates. The MEMS systems being developed in Bhave\u2019s portfolio aim to provide pervasive positioning and navigation capability for the warfighter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBhave has been a faculty member at Purdue University since 2015. There, he leads the OxideMEMS Lab which explores inter-domain coupling in opto-mechanical, spin-acoustic and atom-MEMS devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong other distinctions, Bhave is the recipient of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society\u2019s Walter G. Cady Award (2023); the Google Faculty Research Award (2020); the IEEE Ultrasonics Young Investigator Award (2014); the DARPA Young Faculty Award (2008), and the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program Award (2007).\u003C!--\u003Cp\u003E\r\n    Sunil Bhave, Ph.D., joined DARPA in August 2023 as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office.\r\n\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\r\n    His DARPA research focuses on pioneering innovative microelectomechanical systems (MEMS) to advance sensor technology and computing performance towards the fundamental limits of physics, chemistry, and thermodynamics. His research interests also include quantum-classical correlations and their use as hybrid sensors; atomic-layer perfection in manufacturing of classical mesoscale devices; radio front ends that think and act at lightning speeds; and breaking the non-recoverable expense bottleneck for defect-free manufacturing of wafer substrates. The MEMS systems being developed in Bhave\u2019s portfolio aim to provide pervasive positioning and navigation capability for the warfighter.\r\n\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\r\n    Bhave has been a faculty member at Purdue University since 2015. There, he leads the OxideMEMS Lab which explores inter-domain coupling in opto-mechanical, spin-acoustic and atom-MEMS devices.\r\n\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\r\n    Among other distinctions, Bhave is the recipient of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society\u2019s Walter G. 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His research interests also include quantum-classical correlations and their use as hybrid sensors; atomic-layer perfection in manufacturing of classical mesoscale devices; radio front ends that think and act at lightning speeds; and breaking the non-recoverable expense bottleneck for defect-free manufacturing of wafer substrates. ","summary_trimmed":"Sunil Bhave, Ph.D., has research that explores the inter-domain coupling in opto-mechanical, spin-acoustic and atom-microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). His research interests also include quantum-classical correlations and their use as hybrid sensors; atomic-layer perfection in manufacturing of classical mesoscale devices; radio front ends that think and act at lightning speeds; and breaking the non-recoverable expense bottleneck for defect-free manufacturing of wafer substrates. ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Sunil","field_last_name":"Bhave","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Microsystems|Photonics|Positioning Navigation Timing (PNT)|Quantum","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-09-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 09\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-09-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1867,"title":"Mark Salvador","view_node":"\/about\/people\/mark-salvador","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Salvador, Ph.D., joined DARPA in July 2023 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office. His research interests include Earth observation and remote sensing, biosensing, and biocomputing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to coming to DARPA, Salvador served as president and principal scientist at Zi INC., where he provided technical and consulting expertise to numerous government and industry clients, including multiple DARPA offices. His resume also includes stints as chief engineer and product manager for airborne hyperspectral systems in the L3\/Harris Exelis Geospatial Systems Division, deputy director, technology division for Logos Technologies, and manager for the Science Applications International Corporation\u2019s Advanced Technology Applications Division.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also served as an aerospace\/system safety engineer for the U.S. Navy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters and written numerous government reports.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Computational Sciences, Remote Sensing, George Mason University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Applied and Engineering Physics, George Mason University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Mark Salvador, Ph.D., has research interests which include Earth observation and remote sensing, biosensing, and biocomputing. His areas of interest include algorithms, sensors, behavioral science, and synthetic biology.","summary_trimmed":"Mark Salvador, Ph.D., has research interests which include Earth observation and remote sensing, biosensing, and biocomputing. His areas of interest include algorithms, sensors, behavioral science, and synthetic biology.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Mark","field_last_name":"Salvador","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Algorithms|Sensors|Behavioral Science|Synthetic Biology|Agriculture","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-07-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESat, 07\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-07-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1868,"title":"Kevin Sloan","view_node":"\/about\/people\/kevin-sloan","body":"\u003Cp\u003EKevin Sloan joined DARPA in May 2023 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. His technical areas of interest include unmanned\/uncrewed vehicles, modular\/open architecture robotics, human-machine interaction and teaming, maritime sensing, and complex system of systems engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Sloan served as the Deputy Technical Director for the U.S. Navy\u0027s Research and Development Support Activity. His previous industry experience includes Northrop Grumman, and roles as an Associate Technical Fellow with TASC, and Technical Fellow with Engility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESloan is also actively involved in project-based education, directing an international robotics competition for university students for a non-profit organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.Eng., Systems Engineering, University of Maryland\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Kevin Sloan\u0027s technical areas of interest include unmanned\/uncrewed vehicles, modular\/open architecture robotics, human-machine interaction and teaming, maritime sensing, and complex system of systems engineering.","summary_trimmed":"Kevin Sloan\u0027s technical areas of interest include unmanned\/uncrewed vehicles, modular\/open architecture robotics, human-machine interaction and teaming, maritime sensing, and complex system of systems engineering.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Kevin","field_last_name":"Sloan","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Maritime|Robotics|Uncrewed","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-05-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 05\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-05-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1871,"title":"Steven Chambers","view_node":"\/about\/people\/steven-chambers","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESteven Chambers joined DARPA in May 2023 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore his arrival, he was a vice president and technical fellow at AeroVironment Inc. In this role he supported technical roadmap generation and development and fielding of many unmanned aerial systems, including the Mars helicopter Ingenuity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChambers\u2019 primary research interests include spacecraft mobility; maneuvering of systems and forces; and developing more resilient and integrated robotic teammates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Aerospace Engineering, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFocus on aircraft design and computational fluid dynamics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Aerospace Engineering, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Steven Chambers\u2019 primary research interests include spacecraft mobility; maneuvering of systems and forces; and developing more resilient and integrated robotic teammates. His areas of interest include uncrewed, satellites, and resilience. ","summary_trimmed":"Steven Chambers\u2019 primary research interests include spacecraft mobility; maneuvering of systems and forces; and developing more resilient and integrated robotic teammates. His areas of interest include uncrewed, satellites, and resilience. ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Steven","field_last_name":"Chambers","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Air|Resilience|Robotics|Satellites|Robotics|Uncrewed","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-05-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 05\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-05-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1874,"title":"Jonathan Doyle","view_node":"\/about\/people\/jonathan-doyle","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJonathan Doyle joined DARPA in May 2023 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis interests focus on building a deeper understanding of how economics and financial market dynamics could impact national security.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to arriving at DARPA, Jonathan built multiple companies leveraging machine learning for commercial enterprises.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Technology Commercialization, University of Texas at Austin\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Business Administration, Babson College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Jonathan Doyle\u0027s interests focus on building a deeper understanding of how economics and financial market dynamics could impact national security.","summary_trimmed":"Jonathan Doyle\u0027s interests focus on building a deeper understanding of how economics and financial market dynamics could impact national security.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Jonathan","field_last_name":"Doyle","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Economic Systems|Supply Chain and Logistics","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-05-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 05\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-05-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1875,"title":"Michael Lack","view_node":"\/about\/people\/michael-lack","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Lack joined the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) as a program manager in May 2023. His research interests focus on privacy, secure communications, cybersecurity, and embedded systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his position at DARPA, Lack was a chief scientist within STR\u2019s Cyber and Physical Systems division, providing oversight and expertise to several privacy, cybersecurity, and networking research projects. Before joining STR, he was the senior vice president of Research and Development (R\u0026amp;D) at Two Six Technologies, where he oversaw a broad research portfolio in mobile security, data privacy, cybersecurity, applied math, data science and complex systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore Two Six Technologies, Lack held senior research positions at several premier R\u0026amp;D organizations, focusing on next-generation cybersecurity and information assurance technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e2d27d779d8227710fd9a93bf9a44eef5\u0022\u003EM.S., Computer Science, University of Virginia\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef822375565c77dedf3e80738259841ce\u0022\u003EB.S., Computer Science, University of Richmond\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e21bcffd5b0445a1f514768af09c9f0a7\u0022\u003EB.S., Mathematics, University of Richmond\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Michael Lack\u0027s research interests focus on privacy, secure communications, cybersecurity, and embedded systems. ","summary_trimmed":"Michael Lack\u0027s research interests focus on privacy, secure communications, cybersecurity, and embedded systems. ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Michael","field_last_name":"Lack","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Communication Processes and Technology|Cyber|Formal Methods|Privacy and Security|Systems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-05-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 05\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-05-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1876,"title":"Justin Cohen","view_node":"\/about\/people\/justin-cohen","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJustin Cohen, Ph.D., is a program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO). He joined DARPA in April 2023. His research interests include quantum photonics, precision measurement, acousto-optics, and integrated photonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA as a program manager, Cohen worked as a scientist with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he advised DARPA and other U.S. government clients on research and development programs in advanced microelectronics, with a focus on integrated photonics technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e1bd1b6095dba3b59815a0678c8c737ec\u0022\u003EPh.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e34f030e7927ee6f09bcf420e8476d025\u0022\u003EM.S., Physics, California Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e6ba892d33729e02db386a1bd1869cbd4\u0022\u003EB.S., Mathematics, University of Florida\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e217c133e81e87267309d9d656e113642\u0022\u003EB.S., Physics, University of Florida\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Justin Cohen, Ph.D., has research interests that include quantum photonics, precision measurement, acousto-optics, and integrated photonics.","summary_trimmed":"Justin Cohen, Ph.D., has research interests that include quantum photonics, precision measurement, acousto-optics, and integrated photonics.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Justin","field_last_name":"Cohen","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Quantum|Photonics|Sensors|Microsystems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-04-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESat, 04\/01\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-04-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1882,"title":"Michael Sangillo","view_node":"\/about\/people\/michael-sangillo","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Sangillo joined DARPA in February 2023 as a program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO). His objective is to enable rapid manufacturing and deployment of disruptive microsystem technologies that have immediate national security applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESangillo has directed research programs across cyber electronic warfare, communication, and radar technologies sponsored by the Air Force, Army, and DARPA. Before joining DARPA, Sangillo was the founder and CEO of Spear Research, a specialized company focused on challenges in sensing and applied physics. Sangillo led his company through the acquisition and integration into Pacific Defense. 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His areas of interest include sensors, security and microfabrication.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Todd","field_last_name":"Bauer","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Sensors|Microsystems|Organics|Hardware|Microchips","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222023-01-30T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 01\/30\/2023 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2023-01-30","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1886,"title":"Matthew Marge","view_node":"\/about\/people\/matthew-marge","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Marge, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in January 2023 to create, execute, and transition programs in artificial intelligence (AI), human-machine interaction, and multi-agent systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarge joins DARPA from the Army Research Laboratory where he was a senior computer scientist. 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His current focus areas include technology development and demonstration of advanced maritime technologies with particular focus on rapid design, prototyping, and fielding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImmediately prior to DARPA, Kent served as deputy chief engineer for systems engineering and technical authority for the Department of the Navy, supporting the Navy\u0027s Chief Engineer and the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for Research Development Test and Evaluation. In that role he was the touchstone for systems engineering and technical authority topics. Previous to that, Kent performed naval science and technology oversight at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He was the chief engineer and director of research for the Naval Architecture and Engineering Department at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is an associate editor of the Journal of Ship Research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e9faa1cebd32ebc36d0152e1100ab7a90\u0022\u003EPh.D., Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e2036de459bb2403acab028bf529a7bde\u0022\u003EM.S., Engineering, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ea2873cdffe5502e3edffc399377dcd5e\u0022\u003EB.S., Engineering Physics, Queen\u0027s University Canada\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Christopher Kent, Ph.D., has focus areas that include technology development and demonstration of advanced maritime technologies with particular focus on rapid design, prototyping, and fielding.","summary_trimmed":"Christopher Kent, Ph.D., has focus areas that include technology development and demonstration of advanced maritime technologies with particular focus on rapid design, prototyping, and fielding.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Christopher","field_last_name":"Kent","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Autonomy|Maritime|Manufacturing|Systems|Uncrewed","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222022-12-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 12\/01\/2022 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2022-12-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1890,"title":"Anna Tauke-Pedretti","view_node":"\/about\/people\/anna-tauke-pedretti","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAnna Tauke-Pedretti, Ph.D., is a program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO). She joined DARPA in November 2022. Her research interests include compound semiconductor devices, optoelectronics, and heterogeneously integrated microsystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom 2008 to 2022, Tauke-Pedretti was a research and development manager and technical staff member at Sandia National Laboratories. At Sandia, she managed and led research efforts in photonic integrated circuits, high-power microelectronics, focal plane arrays, and microelectronics security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETauke-Pedretti has co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings and holds 14 patents. She has served as the general chair of the Optica Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics Conference, chair of the Albuquerque Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society, and is an IEEE senior member.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eaebc2194ca9726a414bd0ba29338b955\u0022\u003EPh.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ea87b72c6c2609aabbff748017bbe77ea\u0022\u003EM.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3cd522b188f3b3e8af690450a790cbec\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e1c4eb588614df1257c77e1c97f25605c\u0022\u003EB.S., Physics, University of Iowa\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Anna Tauke-Pedretti, Ph.D., has research interests that include compound semiconductor devices, optoelectronics, and heterogeneously integrated microsystems.","summary_trimmed":"Anna Tauke-Pedretti, Ph.D., has research interests that include compound semiconductor devices, optoelectronics, and heterogeneously integrated microsystems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Anna","field_last_name":"Tauke-Pedretti","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Photonics|Microsystems|Microchips","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222022-11-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 11\/01\/2022 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2022-11-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1893,"title":"Andrew Detor","view_node":"\/about\/people\/andrew-detor","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Detor, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office in September 2022.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was formerly a senior principal scientist at General Electric (GE), leading advanced material development programs and the company\u2019s materials informatics strategy. During his 14-year career at GE, Andrew led teams to successfully transition lab-scale research to commercial application across a range of products including industrial gas turbines and aircraft engines.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has experience in high-temperature metal alloys and manufacturing methods spanning traditional forging operations to the latest additive technologies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile at DARPA, Andrew is interested in exploring new possibilities at the intersection of materials science, manufacturing, and system design to enable unmatched sustainability and performance in extreme environment applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Andrew Detor, Ph.D., is interested in exploring new possibilities at the intersection of materials science, manufacturing, and system design to enable unmatched sustainability and performance in extreme environment applications. ","summary_trimmed":"Andrew Detor, Ph.D., is interested in exploring new possibilities at the intersection of materials science, manufacturing, and system design to enable unmatched sustainability and performance in extreme environment applications. ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Andrew","field_last_name":"Detor","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Manufacturing|Maritime|Machine Learning (ML)","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222022-09-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 09\/01\/2022 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2022-09-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1895,"title":"Timothy Klausutis ","view_node":"\/about\/people\/timothy-klausutis","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETimothy (T.J.) Klausutis, Ph.D., joined DARPA in August 2022 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis interests include network collaborative autonomous systems and weapons, advanced sensors and seekers, signal processing and automatic target recognition and acquisition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to arriving at DARPA, Klausutis was the core technical competency lead for seekers and a fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate where he led the research of radio frequency (RF) seeker technology, electro-optical\/infrared (EO\/IR) seeker technology, integrated sensing and processing technology, and the nature-inspired research team.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eaaadd139c0194e5cb00266a9f645343a\u0022\u003EPh.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ee423d08269e90f46b833555f810abe2f\u0022\u003EM.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e14963ed14eb032b0599379f3be84656f\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, Florida State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Timothy (T.J.) Klausutis, Ph.D., has research interests that include network collaborative autonomous systems and weapons, advanced sensors and seekers, signal processing and automatic target recognition and acquisition. ","summary_trimmed":"Timothy (T.J.) Klausutis, Ph.D., has research interests that include network collaborative autonomous systems and weapons, advanced sensors and seekers, signal processing and automatic target recognition and acquisition. ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Timothy","field_last_name":"Klausutis ","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Autonomy|Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Sensors","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222022-08-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 08\/01\/2022 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2022-08-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1908,"title":"Marc Calabrese","view_node":"\/about\/people\/marc-calabrese","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMarc Calabrese joined DARPA as a program manager in June 2022.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECalabrese\u2019s research interests include automation, network security, and program analysis. His research, development, test, and evaluation experience spans industry and civil service.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn previous positions, he has directed research and development programs; supported test exercises; assessed the effectiveness and suitability of different technologies; and identified opportunities at the boundaries of information systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.E., Electrical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMBA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Marc Calabrese\u0027s research interests include automation, network security, and program analysis.","summary_trimmed":"Marc Calabrese\u0027s research interests include automation, network security, and program analysis.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Marc","field_last_name":"Calabrese","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Cyber","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222022-06-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EWed, 06\/01\/2022 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2022-06-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1910,"title":"Frank Robey","view_node":"\/about\/people\/frank-robey","body":"\u003Cp\u003EFrank Robey, Ph.D., joined DARPA in May 2022 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests are in the advancement of sensor systems and capabilities using signal processing techniques based on a firm theoretical foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobey is on assignment from MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he was an associate group leader in the Advanced Technology Division. 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He first joined MIT\u2019s research staff in 1978, working initially on computing systems and AI, and later adding cyber security as a focus area. Shrobe has previously worked at DARPA with two tours as a program manager. He has also worked in industry as the technical director and vice president of technology for Symbolics Inc., from 1982 to 1992.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a Fellow of both the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 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Before Leidos, O\u2019Brien was with BAE Systems where she focused on quantum communications and various cybertechnology projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is a commercial helicopter pilot and flight instructor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Physics, Drexel University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Physics, Drexel University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Physics, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Allyson O\u0027Brien, Ph.D., joined DARPA to develop, execute, and transition programs in quantum information and cybersecurity.","summary_trimmed":"Allyson O\u0027Brien, Ph.D., joined DARPA to develop, execute, and transition programs in quantum information and cybersecurity.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Allyson","field_last_name":"O\u2019Brien","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Cyber|Quantum","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222022-01-30T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESun, 01\/30\/2022 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2022-01-30","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1937,"title":"Matthew Pava","view_node":"\/about\/people\/matthew-pava","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Pava, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in March 2021. He is interested in biotechnologies that address challenges in infrastructure sustainment, emergent care for battlefield trauma, and mitigating the impact of sleep loss on health and human performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to coming to DARPA, Pava was a senior scientist in the Human Systems and Autonomy research area at Lockheed Martin\u2019s Advanced Technology Laboratories, where he led research teams as a principal investigator on multiple projects, including DARPA-funded research, in areas of mobile health, physiological monitoring, and bioinformatics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA recipient of several awards for research innovation and service, Pava founded and moderated a scientific interest group on chronobiology and sleep at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to facilitate cross-institute collaboration and communication within the Intramural Research Program. He has published over ten peer-reviewed journal articles, given over 20 technical presentations, and has provided mentorship to junior staff and students throughout his career in industry and academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPava was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at NIH.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Psychology, College of Charleston\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Molecular Biology, College of Charleston\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Matthew Pava, Ph.D., is interested in biotechnologies that address challenges in infrastructure sustainment, emergent care for battlefield trauma, and mitigating the impact of sleep loss on health and human performance.","summary_trimmed":"Matthew Pava, Ph.D., is interested in biotechnologies that address challenges in infrastructure sustainment, emergent care for battlefield trauma, and mitigating the impact of sleep loss on health and human performance.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Matthew","field_last_name":"Pava","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Biomanufacturing|Health|Supply Chain and Logistics|Synthetic Biology","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222021-03-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 03\/01\/2021 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2021-03-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":1938,"title":"Hamish Malin","view_node":"\/about\/people\/hamish-malin","body":"\u003Cp\u003EHamish Malin joined DARPA\u0027s Tactical Technology Office in February 2021 with more than two decades of leadership experience in both the government and industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMalin\u0027s technical expertise includes precision guided munitions, weapon sensor and seeker technologies, GPS-denied navigation, telemetry, and gun-hardened electromechanical systems. His program management duties have spanned project initiation, project execution, and direction of product fielding. He is particularly interested in developing novel technologies to expand naval surface engagement capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Malin served as chief engineer for the Advanced Hypersonic Weapons \u0026amp; Guided Munitions (E20) Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division. During 18 years in various roles there, he focused primarily on guided projectiles and their complementary gun weapon system elements. He had significant leadership roles in a multitude of weapons programs including Guidance Integrated Fuze (GIF), Advanced Low-cost Munitions Ordnance (ALaMO), Multi-Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System (MAD-FIRES), Railgun, and Hypervelocity Projectile (HVP).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrevious to that, Malin worked for Raytheon Systems Co. on reconnaissance systems where he was a test engineer responsible for large airborne SIGINT reconnaissance systems and spent considerable time overseas as a field service representative interacting on a daily basis with military personnel, flight crews, and intelligence agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic and State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Hamish Malin\u0027s technical expertise includes precision guided munitions, weapon sensor and seeker technologies, GPS-denied navigation, telemetry, and gun-hardened electromechanical systems. ","summary_trimmed":"Hamish Malin\u0027s technical expertise includes precision guided munitions, weapon sensor and seeker technologies, GPS-denied navigation, telemetry, and gun-hardened electromechanical systems. ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Hamish","field_last_name":"Malin","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Maritime|Systems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222021-02-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 02\/01\/2021 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2021-02-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":3704,"title":"Michael Holmes","view_node":"\/about\/people\/michael-holmes","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Holmes is the managing director of the Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program. Prior to joining DARPA in September 2024, Holmes was at Sandia National Laboratories for more than 21 years. In his most recent role at Sandia, he was the senior manager of the protective technologies organization focused on specialized hardware systems security research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Holmes was responsible for operation of the largest U.S. government microfabrication facilities for the National Nuclear Security Administration\u2019s Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA) Center. He held additional roles at MESA including senior manager for the Heterogeneous Integration \u0026amp; RF Microsystems group, line manager for the Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) department, and mixed signal integrated circuit design engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Michael Holmes is the managing director of the Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program.","summary_trimmed":"Michael Holmes is the managing director of the Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Michael","field_last_name":"Holmes","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Manufacturing|Microsystems|Microchips|Dual-use by Design|Sensors","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-09-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ESun, 09\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-09-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":3750,"title":"Stephen Kuhn","view_node":"\/about\/people\/stephen-kuhn","body":"\u003Cp\u003EStephen Kuhn, Ph.D., joined DARPA in October 2024. His research interests include resilient systems design, language security (langsec), and blended architectures focusing on transition to solve warfighter needs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe joins DARPA from industry, where he focused on transitioning and implementing technologies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore that, Kuhn served 22 years in the federal government, including the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense working on policy, the Air Force Research Laboratory researching various technologies, hypervisor design, hardware virtualization, large-scale data processing, data format enforcement, and blended hardware-software architectures, and Air Combat Command transitioning modernizing cyber capabilities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKuhn is a Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and has served nearly a year in Afghanistan as the Signals Intelligence Officer in charge of a task force, working with multiple U.S. and foreign partners.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has published multiple papers on resilient systems techniques and operating systems design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Engineering Science, Dartmouth College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Engineering, Syracuse University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Computer Engineering, Clarkson University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Stephen Kuhn, Ph.D., has research interests that include resilient systems design, language security (langsec), and blended architectures focusing on transition to solve warfighter needs.","summary_trimmed":"Stephen Kuhn, Ph.D., has research interests that include resilient systems design, language security (langsec), and blended architectures focusing on transition to solve warfighter needs.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Stephen","field_last_name":"Kuhn","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Cyber|Formal Methods|Resilience|Systems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-10-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 10\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-10-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":3760,"title":"Byron Cook","view_node":"\/about\/people\/byron-cook","body":"\u003Cp\u003EByron Cook, Ph.D., joined DARPA part-time in October 2024 as part of the pilot Private Sector Personnel Program. His research interests include automated formal reasoning and programming languages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECook is also a professor at the University College London and a vice president and distinguished scientist at Amazon, where he founded Amazon\u2019s Automated Reasoning Group (ARG).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECook is perhaps best known for his work in the private sector on automatic methods for proving program termination and the Terminator termination prover. This work represented a breakthrough, challenging the prevailing opinion in computer science that automatic termination proving was impossible. Cook also contributed to Microsoft\u2019s SLAM and the product Static Driver Verifier, often credited for reviving automatic program verification research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECook developed dozens of verification and security tools and has published over 80 technical papers, has keynoted dozens of conferences, and his work has gained significant media attention, with coverage in the Economist, Financial Times, Science, Scientific American, TechCrunch, Vogue, and Wired. He has received multiple awards for his research contributions, notably the Roger Needham Award and the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Computer Science, Oregon Health Sciences University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Computer Science, Evergreen State College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Byron Cook, Ph.D., has research interests that include automated formal reasoning and programming languages. He is a distinguished scientist at Amazon, where he founded Amazon\u2019s Automated Reasoning Group (ARG). ","summary_trimmed":"Byron Cook, Ph.D., has research interests that include automated formal reasoning and programming languages. He is a distinguished scientist at Amazon, where he founded Amazon\u2019s Automated Reasoning Group (ARG). ","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Byron","field_last_name":"Cook","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Formal Methods|Large Language Models (LLMs)|Resilience","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222024-10-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 10\/01\/2024 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2024-10-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":3793,"title":"Sushma Savarala","view_node":"\/about\/people\/sushma-savarala","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESushma Savarala, Ph.D., joined DARPA in October 2024 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer expertise spans regulatory affairs, product development, drug delivery, and innovation within the pharmaceutical and supplement industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her role at DARPA, Savarala serves as an interdisciplinary scientist at the Center for Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to her tenure at DARPA, she led multiple initiatives in program management, strategic planning, FDA compliance, COVID-19 emergency preparedness, and collaborated with key organizations such as DARPA, the FDA, NIH, NIST, and BARDA.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Chemistry, Temple University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Sushma Savarala, Ph.D., has expertise that spans regulatory affairs, product development, drug delivery, and innovation within the pharmaceutical and supplement industries. Her areas of interest include health, machine learning, and biomanufacturing.","summary_trimmed":"Sushma Savarala, Ph.D., has expertise that spans regulatory affairs, product development, drug delivery, and innovation within the pharmaceutical and supplement industries. 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He joined DARPA in December 2024.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include power storage, solid-state lasers, optics, high-energy effects, metrology, and position, navigation, and timing (PNT).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining DARPA as a program manager, Schratwieser worked as a staff scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton supporting DARPA efforts in MXO and in the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) spanning atomic and quantum physics, magnetic materials, radio frequency (RF) communications, PNT, and photonics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research focused on the development of small-size, high-repetition-rate femtosecond optical frequency combs for precise frequency dissemination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef5a65366d46ba4e12b64144161a6d3f7\u0022\u003EPh.D., Ultrafast Optics, Heriot-Watt University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e898506d4aa5d2274e8657e4a071b06fa\u0022\u003EM.S., Photonics and Optoelectronic Devices, University of St Andrews \/ Heriot-Watt University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eec68c48d4064a2f4068f4b7153a600a9\u0022\u003EB.S., Physics, University of St Andrews in Scotland\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewith Honors\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Thomas Schratwieser, Ph.D., has research interests that include power storage, solid-state lasers, optics, high-energy effects, metrology, and position, navigation, and timing (PNT).  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He also served as an affiliate assistant professor at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic of Arizona.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biophysics at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles. He has mentored more than 20 students and received multiple honors, including the NSF Alan T. 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","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Abhishek","field_last_name":"Singharoy","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Biological|Large Language Models (LLMs)|Agriculture","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-02-04T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 02\/04\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-02-04","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":3883,"title":"Robert Murray","view_node":"\/about\/people\/robert-murray","body":"\u003Cp\u003ELt. Cmdr. Robert L. Murray, Ph.D., U.S. Navy, joined DARPA as a deputy program manager in August 2024, and was promoted to program manager in February 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis interests include advancing innovation in medical triage, point of injury trauma care, and warfighter performance and protection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to arriving at DARPA, Murray served as the deputy director of modernization with III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, Japan and is an assistant professor in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University. 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Murray\u0027s interests include advancing innovation in medical triage, point of injury trauma care, and warfighter performance and protection.","summary_trimmed":"Lt. Cmdr. Robert L. 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He joined DARPA in February 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include electronic, optoelectronic, and acoustic applications of compound semiconductor and ultrawide bandgap materials, advanced device engineering and microfabrication, and 3D microsystem design and manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeyer previously served as the head of the Electromagnetic Technologies Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he managed a variety of basic and applied research projects related to emerging thin film materials and microwave- and millimeter-wave analog electronics for defense applications. At Penn State, Meyer focused on the development of silicon nitride passivation layers for gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e67037f32dcde422cdaee0a1877f28031\u0022\u003EPh.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"David Meyer, Ph.D., has research interests that include electronic, optoelectronic, and acoustic applications of ultrawide bandgap materials and devices, parallelization of microscale and nanoscale additive manufacturing, and multifunctional distributed membrane microsystems.","summary_trimmed":"David Meyer, Ph.D., has research interests that include electronic, optoelectronic, and acoustic applications of ultrawide bandgap materials and devices, parallelization of microscale and nanoscale additive manufacturing, and multifunctional distributed membrane microsystems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"David","field_last_name":"Meyer","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Manufacturing|Microsystems|Electronics|Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR)","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-02-07T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 02\/07\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-02-07","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":3896,"title":"Huanan Zhang","view_node":"\/about\/people\/huanan-zhang","body":"\u003Cp\u003EHuanan Zhang, Ph.D., is a program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO). 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Hoffman","view_node":"\/about\/people\/john-m-hoffman","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn M. Hoffman, Ph.D., is a program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO). He joined DARPA in February 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA as a program manager, Hoffman worked as a director with Ernst and Young, LLC, where he advised DARPA, other U.S. government clients, and commercial clients on research and development programs in advanced microelectronics, with a focus on bioelectronics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHoffman also worked as a scientist contributing to Roche Sequencing\u2019s sequencing by expansion (SBX) technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e4a1d34005070b8e9452bb0dcc89ac156\u0022\u003EPh.D., Bioengineering, University of Washington\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec13145f270340b0d3faf1c683e489e35\u0022\u003EB.S., Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"John M. Hoffman, Ph.D., has research interests that lie at the intersection of biotechnology, microsystems, and computer science, as well as sequencing by expansion (SBX) technology.","summary_trimmed":"John M. 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Jeremy Pamplin, M.D., U.S. Army, joined DARPA in May 2025 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include telemedicine, clinical decision support, robotics, and automation to support austere, disaster, and operational medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to arriving at DARPA, Pamplin served as the first commander of TATRC, the only U.S. Army laboratory dedicated to researching and developing advanced technologies to automate casualty care. He previously served as TATRC\u0027s director and deputy director.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe developed and directed the ADVISOR teleconsultation system, providing specialty support to deployed military forces. He also co-founded and served as regional director for the Joint Telecritical Care Network (JTCCN). Pamplin holds the rank of professor of medicine and professor of military\/emergency medicine at the Uniformed Services University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPamplin has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, authored book chapters, and presented at numerous national and international conferences. He has received numerous military awards and professional recognition, including induction into the Order of Military Medical Merit.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPamplin completed a residency in internal medicine at Eisenhower Army Medical Center and a fellowship in critical care medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7084f65cd322b4ef14cd20b74a05fc7b\u0022\u003EM.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e409d64bc91bd1348f64a5bb74e13b5be\u0022\u003EB.S., U.S. Military Academy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Retired Col. Jeremy Pamplin, M.D., U.S. Army, has research interests which include telemedicine, clinical decision support, robotics, casualty care, and automation to support austere, disaster, and operational medicine.","summary_trimmed":"Retired Col. Jeremy Pamplin, M.D., U.S. Army, has research interests which include telemedicine, clinical decision support, robotics, casualty care, and automation to support austere, disaster, and operational medicine.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Jeremy","field_last_name":"Pamplin","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Algorithms|Behavioral Science|Biological|Health|Robotics|Casualty Care","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-05-19T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 05\/19\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-05-19","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4298,"title":"Xenofon Koutsoukos","view_node":"\/about\/people\/xenofon-koutsoukos","body":"\u003Cp\u003EXenofon Koutsoukos, Ph.D., 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is the Thomas R. 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He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the design of resilient cyber-physical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., University of Notre Dame\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Xenofon Koutsoukos, Ph.D., has research interests that include learning-enabled systems, security and resilience, diagnosis and fault tolerance, distributed algorithms, formal methods, and adaptive resource management.","summary_trimmed":"Xenofon Koutsoukos, Ph.D., has research interests that include learning-enabled systems, security and resilience, diagnosis and fault tolerance, distributed algorithms, formal methods, and adaptive resource management.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Xenofon","field_last_name":"Koutsoukos","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Algorithms|Cyber|Formal Methods|Resilience","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-07-17T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 07\/17\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-07-17","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4304,"title":"Roozbeh Jafari","view_node":"\/about\/people\/roozbeh-jafari","body":"\u003Cp\u003ERoozbeh Jafari, Ph.D., joined DARPA in July 2025 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office. His research interests include digital health technologies, wearable computing, biomedical signal processing, and AI-driven physiological sensing systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining DARPA, Jafari was principal staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and research affiliate at MIT\u0027s Laboratory for Information \u0026amp; Decision Systems and Microsystems Technology Laboratories. He joined MIT from Texas A\u0026amp;M where he was the Tim and Amy Leach Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the School of Engineering Medicine. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory developed groundbreaking technologies including smart rings, smart watches and e-tattoos for continuous cardiovascular monitoring, cuffless blood pressure sensing systems, and precision medicine digital twins.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has secured over $89M in external funding as principal investigator or co-investigator from agencies including National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Defense. Jafari has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and holds multiple patents in wearable health technologies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has mentored more than 25 graduate students and received multiple honors, including the NSF CAREER Award, Federal Communications Commission Chairman\u0027s Award for Advancement in Accessibility and several best paper awards. He served as inaugural chair of the NIH Clinical Informatics and Digital Health study section and holds editorial positions at premier journals including npj Digital Medicine and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eae1ae402236b964282d126871d0b1f75\u0022\u003EPh.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3d908c284813e1860c1151522e4112a7\u0022\u003EM.S., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e255a3797db67dc9904f2b3f3f1376345\u0022\u003EM.S., Electrical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e00a635a30218d92b2dcd961194d3de5e\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Roozbeh Jafari, Ph.D., has research interests that include digital health technologies, wearable computing, biomedical signal processing, casualty care, and AI-driven physiological sensing systems.","summary_trimmed":"Roozbeh Jafari, Ph.D., has research interests that include digital health technologies, wearable computing, biomedical signal processing, casualty care, and AI-driven physiological sensing systems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Roozbeh","field_last_name":"Jafari","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Biological|Data|Electronics|Health|Casualty Care|Sensors","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-07-21T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 07\/21\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-07-21","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4339,"title":"William Mounfield","view_node":"\/about\/people\/william-mounfield","body":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam Mounfield, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office (BTO) in August 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, nanoporous materials, catalysis, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with applications to national security challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA as a program manager, Mounfield served as the senior lead science and technology advisor to the BTO office director, where he led strategy development and portfolio planning for emerging technologies impacting national security, including chemical and biological defense, flexible biomanufacturing, and novel material technologies. William also managed the team of scientific, engineering and technical advisors (SETAs) supporting BTO in his role as a senior lead scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton. He has provided technical support for all office programs and provided previous lead technical support for multiple programs, including Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) and Mechanically Interlocked Materials (MIMs), among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to his DARPA service, Mounfieldwas a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying the synthesis of electro- and thermocatalysts for emerging energy applications. He also performed graduate work in nanoporous material synthesis for adsorption applications at Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Florida\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"William Mounfield, Ph.D., has research interests that include materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, nanoporous materials, catalysis, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with applications to national security challenges.","summary_trimmed":"William Mounfield, Ph.D., has research interests that include materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, nanoporous materials, catalysis, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with applications to national security challenges.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"William","field_last_name":"Mounfield","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Biological|Chemistry|Materials Science|Agriculture","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-08-11T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 08\/11\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-08-11","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4393,"title":"Susmit Jha","view_node":"\/about\/people\/susmit-jha","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESusmit Jha, Ph.D., joined the Information Processing Techniques Office in August 2025 as a program manager.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research seeks to advance trustworthy and steerable generative AI and controllable multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on real-world resilience, long-term sustainment, and adversarial robustness to effectively deploy AI in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments, supporting multi-domain defense operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining DARPA, Jha was a technical director at SRI International, where he led research in trustworthy, robust, and interpretable AI. He served on the DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group (2023\u20132025). Previously, he led research efforts focused on trustworthy and creative AI at Intel and the United Technology Research Center (now Raytheon) at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). At SRI, he spearheaded multiple AI research programs funded by agencies including DARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJha\u2019s research has been recognized with several best paper awards and nominations, and his work on program synthesis was recognized with the 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2020.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in venues such as NeurIPS, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI), the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), and the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), with over 5000 citations. He is also the co\u2011founder of P\u20111.ai, a venture building artificial general engineering intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis Ph.D. thesis was on structurally constrained program synthesis bridging inductive machine learning and deductive formal methods and he received the Leon\u202fO.\u202fChua Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7f4ed5bb77e2b8a5b2c063a186194175\u0022\u003EPh.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e4fc435413018ce248bcb06b985c25824\u0022\u003EM.S., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e92caac8155abe52cc41cf4ceea7ed4ee\u0022\u003EB.Tech, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Susmit Jha, Ph.D., has research interests in advancing trustworthy and steerable generative AI and controllable multi-agent systems.","summary_trimmed":"Susmit Jha, Ph.D., has research interests in advancing trustworthy and steerable generative AI and controllable multi-agent systems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Susmit","field_last_name":"Jha","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Autonomy|Collective Intelligence|Large Language Models (LLMs)|Machine Learning (ML)|Resilience","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-09-03T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EWed, 09\/03\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-09-03","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4417,"title":"Harun Dogo","view_node":"\/about\/people\/harun-dogo","body":"\u003Cp\u003EHarun Dogo, Ph.D., joined DARPA in July 2025 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, he was head of quantitative research and portfolio manager at an investment management firm in Los Angeles. Earlier in his career he worked at a New York-based investment bank, was an economist at a multilateral development bank, an analyst at a global research institute, and served on the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Applied Physics, Naval Postgraduate School\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Physics, U.S. Air Force Academy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Harun Dogo, Ph.D., has research interests that include economics, industrial transformation, energy, and space.","summary_trimmed":"Harun Dogo, Ph.D., has research interests that include economics, industrial transformation, energy, and space.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Harun","field_last_name":"Dogo","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Algorithms|Analytics|Complexity|Economic Systems|Environment|Manufacturing","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-09-15T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 09\/15\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-09-15","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4443,"title":"Mark Rice","view_node":"\/about\/people\/mark-rice","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Rice joined DARPA in September 2025 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. Areas of expertise include naval architecture, unmanned surface vessels, amphibious systems, and advanced manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERice is a licensed professional engineer who was the principal investigator on more than 120 projects involving naval architecture and mechanical engineering. He\u0027s been part of a wide variety of DARPA programs and seedlings over the past three decades, spanning air, maritime, ground, and space domains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Rice was CEO of BlackSea Technologies. Before that, he was founder and president of Maritime Applied Physics Corporation (MAPC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.A., Physics, The University of Maine\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Mark Rice\u0027s areas of expertise include naval architecture, unmanned surface vessels, amphibious systems, and advanced manufacturing.","summary_trimmed":"Mark Rice\u0027s areas of expertise include naval architecture, unmanned surface vessels, amphibious systems, and advanced manufacturing.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Mark","field_last_name":"Rice","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Autonomy|Manufacturing|Maritime","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-10-06T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 10\/06\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-10-06","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4457,"title":"Michael McDonald","view_node":"\/about\/people\/michael-mcdonald","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael McDonald, Ph.D., joined DARPA in October 2025. His interests include plasma science, diagnostics, and engineering; spacecraft power, propulsion, and thermal management; and artificial intelligence (AI) interpretability, with a focus on application to scientific discovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining DARPA, McDonald was a rocket scientist in the Spacecraft Propulsion Section at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. While there, he founded and led the Space Technology and Applications Research Lab, known as STARLab, which specialized in creating and characterizing energetic flows for propulsion and extreme environment simulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcDonald\u2019s aspirations for DARPA include developing material solutions for systems in reactive and oxygenic environments, rapid qualification methods for high-power spacecraft propulsion systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology-traceable plasma diagnostics, AI self-learning methods for plasma state measurement and collisional-radiative model development (i.e., AlphaFold-style models for plasma), scalable AI mechanistic interpretability techniques to verifiably decipher or distill neural networks in human-understandable terms, and many more things yet to be discovered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Applied Physics, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Engineering Physics, University of Michigan\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Michael McDonald, Ph.D. has research interests that include plasma science, diagnostics, and engineering; spacecraft power, propulsion, and thermal management; and AI interpretability.","summary_trimmed":"Michael McDonald, Ph.D. has research interests that include plasma science, diagnostics, and engineering; spacecraft power, propulsion, and thermal management; and AI interpretability.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Michael","field_last_name":"McDonald","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Materials Science|Positioning Navigation Timing (PNT)|Satellites|Space","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-10-20T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 10\/20\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-10-20","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4458,"title":"Micah Howard","view_node":"\/about\/people\/micah-howard","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMicah Howard, Ph.D., joined DARPA in October 2025 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. Areas of expertise include advanced strategic weapons, hypersonics, aerothermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and defense acquisition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Howard was at the Pentagon serving as operations research analyst for the Office of the Secretary of Defense \u2014 Cost Assessment \u0026amp; Program Evaluation; his preceding role was as special scientific advisor to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research \u0026amp; Engineering (OUSD R\u0026amp;E). He spent twelve years on staff at Sandia National Laboratories, focused primarily on hypersonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.I.P.P., International Policy and Practice, George Washington University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Micah Howard, Ph.D., has areas of expertise that include advanced strategic weapons, hypersonics, aerothermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and defense acquisition.","summary_trimmed":"Micah Howard, Ph.D., has areas of expertise that include advanced strategic weapons, hypersonics, aerothermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and defense acquisition.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Micah","field_last_name":"Howard","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Air|Thermal Management","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-10-20T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 10\/20\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-10-20","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4472,"title":"Carlo Scalo","view_node":"\/about\/people\/carlo-scalo","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECarlo Scalo, Ph.D., joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) in November 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe previously supported the U.S. Navy as a subject matter expert in hypersonic aerothermodynamics, where he contributed to the design of basic and applied research programs, and workforce training initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2014, he joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. His research interests focus on numerical and theoretical modeling of high-speed boundary layer physics, linear and nonlinear acoustics, vortex dynamics, and turbulence. He was a recipient of Young Investigator Program (YIP) awards from the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Army.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is also the founder of HySonic Technologies, LLC. Founded in 2017, HySonic is a Purdue-affiliated startup specializing in passive enhancement of aerodynamic and propulsive performance for hypersonic vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt DARPA, he aims to advance the foundational science of extreme-scale hydrodynamics, multiphase chemistry, underwater communications, acoustic and shock wave propagation in water, and quantum-based methods for encryption, data transfer, and solution of partial differential equations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e965e0b07c8089804e5ab1483a359e07c\u0022\u003EPh.D., Mechanical Engineering, Queen\u2019s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e0c176e4f5a788db2b12c84b87fbf7f99\u0022\u003EM.S., Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Napoli \u0022Federico II\u0022, Naples, Italy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e203186ea0d15a9f83451f52fb62d6ee1\u0022\u003EB.S., Aerospace Engineering, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Napoli \u0022Federico II\u0022, Naples, Italy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Carlo Scalo, Ph.D., has research interests which focus on numerical and theoretical modeling of high-speed boundary layer physics, linear and nonlinear acoustics, vortex dynamics, and turbulence.","summary_trimmed":"Carlo Scalo, Ph.D., has research interests which focus on numerical and theoretical modeling of high-speed boundary layer physics, linear and nonlinear acoustics, vortex dynamics, and turbulence.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Carlo","field_last_name":"Scalo","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Maritime|Quantum|Space|Thermal Management","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-11-04T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 11\/04\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-11-04","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4508,"title":"Dakota Roberson","view_node":"\/about\/people\/dakota-roberson","body":"\u003Cp\u003EDakota Roberson, Ph.D., began as a DARPA program manager in the Strategic Technology Office in October 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt DARPA, he is interested in developing and scaling technologies to defend the homeland from irregular warfare attacks and provide warfighters with energy support at the operational and tactical edge. His expertise spans power system stability and dynamics, critical infrastructure security, high-performance frequency-domain control, and statistical signal processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout his career, Roberson has served in numerous roles across government, academia, and industry. He was previously a distinguished scientist and lead engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory, where he focused on advanced energy systems and national security applications. Prior to that, he served as associate professor of electrical \u0026amp; computer engineering at the University of Idaho, where he was affiliated with the nuclear engineering department .\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoberson has held several government advisory positions. He served as a White House Fellow and has been both a member of and government task force advisor to the Defense Science Board. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as a senior technical advisor to the U.S. Air Force Chief Scientist. Earlier in his career, he worked with Sandia National Laboratories and served as an engineering designer and consultant for private-sector companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond his professional pursuits, Roberson races motocross and can be found painting or playing electric guitar in the winter months.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Wyoming\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMinor in Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Wyoming\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMinor in Mathematics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Dakota Roberson, Ph.D. is interested in developing and scaling technologies to defend the homeland from irregular warfare attacks and provide warfighters with energy support at the operational and tactical edge.","summary_trimmed":"Dakota Roberson, Ph.D. is interested in developing and scaling technologies to defend the homeland from irregular warfare attacks and provide warfighters with energy support at the operational and tactical edge.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Dakota","field_last_name":"Roberson","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Data|Manufacturing|Sensors","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-10-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EWed, 10\/01\/2025 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2025-10-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4537,"title":"Robin Bonomi","view_node":"\/about\/people\/robin-bonomi","body":"\u003Cp\u003ELt. Cmdr. Robin Bonomi, M.D., Ph.D., U.S. Navy Medical Corps, joined DARPA\u2019s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) as a program manager in January 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research interests include neuroimmune modulation, precision psychiatry, and molecular imaging technologies for brain-based behavioral health risk prediction and prevention. Her work integrates translational neuroimaging, clinical psychiatry, and advanced analytics for psychiatric outcomes in civilian and active-duty military populations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, she served as psychiatrist and inpatient medical director at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. She led a clinical research team that studied active-duty suicide prevention initiatives and led multiple large-scale imaging projects leveraging positron emission tomography (PET) to understand trauma-induced neural changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe has received awards recognizing her academic work from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the American Psychiatric Association. She has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications and continues to serve on editorial boards for several psychiatric and translational research journals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBonomi is board certified in psychiatry and maintains active clinical licensure. She holds active faculty appointments at Yale University and Uniformed Services University. Her ongoing research supports military medical readiness, bridging fundamental neurobiology, clinical application, and operational performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e1ae20dabc0897a57de47b181d602e01b\u0022\u003EPsychiatry Residency, Yale University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e013013230ec64a55d202db0f85893703\u0022\u003EM.D., Wayne State University School of Medicine\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eb701de4692d9946b699bfe8e8517a14b\u0022\u003EPh.D., Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University College of Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e07f91f020e2025183bc2677730a77e90\u0022\u003EB.A., Physics, Connecticut College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Lt. Cmdr. 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Robin Bonomi, M.D., Ph.D., U.S. Navy Medical Corps, has research interests that include neuroimmune modulation, precision psychiatry, and molecular imaging technologies for brain-based behavioral health risk prediction and prevention.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Robin","field_last_name":"Bonomi","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN)|Cognitive Science|Machine Learning (ML)|Neuroscience|Resilience|Visualization and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Technologies","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-01-05T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 01\/05\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-01-05","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4582,"title":"Dave Burke","view_node":"\/about\/people\/dave-burke","body":"\u003Cp\u003EDave Burke, Ph.D., joined DARPA in January 2026 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include advanced space systems and adaptive airpower, with a focus on manufacturability, flexibility and autonomy to enable employment at scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Burke worked as a Chief Architect with an office in the Department of the Air Force, advising and designing technical solutions to some of some of the Nation\u2019s most urgent problems. He has also previously served as co-leader of the Airborne Radar Systems and Techniques group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he focused on machine learning approaches for target recognition and signal processing in radar imaging and other applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPh.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EM.A, Physics, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EB.A., Physics and Mathematics, State University of New York - Geneseo\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Dave Burke, Ph.D., has research interests in advanced space systems and adaptive airpower, with a focus on manufacturability, flexibility and autonomy to enable employment at scale.","summary_trimmed":"Dave Burke, Ph.D., has research interests in advanced space systems and adaptive airpower, with a focus on manufacturability, flexibility and autonomy to enable employment at scale.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Dave","field_last_name":"Burke","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Strategic Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"197","field_research_topics":"Autonomy|Manufacturing|Space|Systems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-01-26T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 01\/26\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-01-26","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4625,"title":"Micah Stoutimore","view_node":"\/about\/people\/micah-stoutimore","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMicah Stoutimore, Ph.D., is the managing director of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. He joined DARPA in May 2024 as a deputy program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include quantum and quantum-inspired technologies, novel computing technologies, superconducting systems, and cryogenic technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA as a deputy program manager, Stoutimore operated a small business through which he provided scientific and technical consulting services for DARPA. Before his consulting work, he worked at Northrop Grumman, where he advanced from a laboratory scientist testing novel superconducting digital circuits to a senior scientist overseeing a multi-year superconducting digital logic program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e12c43d49ff29fcf3a1d96b0bae3370d1\u0022\u003EPh.D., Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7a968aafe9269d4cb0355830d3f37f2b\u0022\u003EB.S., Physics, University of Florida in Gainesville\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Micah Stoutimore, Ph.D., has research interests that include quantum and quantum-inspired technologies, novel computing technologies, superconducting systems, and cryogenic technologies.","summary_trimmed":"Micah Stoutimore, Ph.D., has research interests that include quantum and quantum-inspired technologies, novel computing technologies, superconducting systems, and cryogenic technologies.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Micah","field_last_name":"Stoutimore","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"High Performance Computing (includes Processing)|Microsystems|Quantum","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00221026-02-17T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 02\/17\/1026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"1026-02-17","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4654,"title":"Chris Cotting","view_node":"\/about\/staff\/chris-cotting","body":"\u003Cp\u003EChris \u201cDoc\u201d Cotting, Ph.D., joined DARPA in February 2026 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. \u0026nbsp;His areas of focus are autonomy, robust control, and optimization of flight vehicles for maximum performance. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has experience as a program manager, chief engineer, flight test lead, and guidance, navigation, and control lead for multiple aerospace vehicles. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, he was vice president of engineering and head of test for EpiSci, an Applied Intuition company. Prior to EpiSci, he was the head of flight sciences and the inaugural director of research at the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Test Pilot School (TPS). He has also worked for NASA and Lockheed Martin\u2019s Skunk Works.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior aircraft he has worked on include the X-33, X-35B, X-43A, X-43C, and X-62 VISTA. 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His research interests include developing algorithms, numerical methods, machine learning, and simulation methods for understanding complex biological systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining DARPA, Schwartz was a professor of biological sciences and professor and head of the Ray \u0026amp; Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where his lab developed computational tools for diverse problems in genetics, genomics, and biophysics, with a particular focus in recent years on cancer research and somatic evolution. He also served as the co-director of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon Medical Scientist Training Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles. He has led numerous educational initiatives focused on improving quantitative and computational training in the life sciences and has received multiple honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and induction as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eb7cac88d1458f78c12c833bc21a4b37b\u0022\u003EPh.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e6d421302b1045da734a1b0cd6bd12643\u0022\u003EM.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e4df3310e5a53997008a4188415aca898\u0022\u003EB.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Russell Schwartz, Ph.D., has research interests which include developing algorithms, numerical methods, machine learning, and simulation methods for understanding complex biological systems.","summary_trimmed":"Russell Schwartz, Ph.D., has research interests which include developing algorithms, numerical methods, machine learning, and simulation methods for understanding complex biological systems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":" Russell","field_last_name":"Schwartz ","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Algorithms|Biological|Machine Learning (ML)","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-05-05T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 05\/05\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-05-05","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4932,"title":"Kyle Schwing","view_node":"\/about\/people\/kyle-schwing","body":"\u003Cp\u003EKyle M. Schwing, Ph.D., joined DARPA in March 2026 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests in complex systems includes network science, communication and teaming, the emergence of organization, and the evolutionary basis of social behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Schwing was an interagency expert in measuring the effectiveness of foreign policy. 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Schwing, Ph.D., has research interests in complex systems that include network science, communication and teaming, the emergence of organization, and the evolutionary basis of social behavior.","summary_trimmed":"Kyle M. Schwing, Ph.D., has research interests in complex systems that include network science, communication and teaming, the emergence of organization, and the evolutionary basis of social behavior.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Kyle","field_last_name":"Schwing","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Biological Technologies Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"193","field_research_topics":"Behavioral Science|Cognitive Science","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-05-18T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 05\/18\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-05-18","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4939,"title":"Alex Hillman","view_node":"\/about\/people\/alex-hillman","body":"\u003Cp\u003ELt. Col. Alex \u201cHEFOE\u201d Hillman, Ph.D., U.S. Air Force, joined DARPA in May 2026 as a program manager to design, execute, and transition programs to help the warfighter succeed in the 21st century operating environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research seeks to advance technologies that couple kinetic and non-kinetic effects, with an emphasis on advanced signal processing, systems and information theoretic methods, and applied computation to enable scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining DARPA, Hillman was assigned to the Pentagon at the Department of the Air Force Integrated Capabilities Office, where he led technology integration for concept and capabilities development for the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Hillman is a career system tester, most recently as the chief data officer at the U.S. Air Force Cyberspace Test Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef7c71889a90f7d506a24bf5a025604b8\u0022\u003EPh.D., Aeronautical \u0026amp; Astronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ebec3ab91e1bcbd560c1d78b0615a2a66\u0022\u003EM.S., Flight Test Engineering, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e4a044a36a47fbb136a642db3689a49a2\u0022\u003EM.S., Operations Research, Air Force Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec7542079084fd7470e8a943702a543f3\u0022\u003EM.S., Systems Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e5a630ce0a28c21e980922e5783e54e31\u0022\u003EM.A., Operational Arts \u0026amp; Sciences, Air University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e4a303bcc0571bdb9ef5a89a2fe84a451\u0022\u003EB.S., Economics, United States Air Force Academy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Lt. Col. Alex \u201cHEFOE\u201d Hillman, Ph.D., U.S. Air Force, has research that seeks to advance technologies that couple kinetic and non-kinetic effects, with an emphasis on advanced signal processing, systems and information theoretic methods, and applied computation to enable scale.","summary_trimmed":"Lt. Col. Alex \u201cHEFOE\u201d Hillman, Ph.D., U.S. Air Force, has research that seeks to advance technologies that couple kinetic and non-kinetic effects, with an emphasis on advanced signal processing, systems and information theoretic methods, and applied computation to enable scale.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Alex","field_last_name":"Hillman","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Cyber|Systems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-05-19T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003ETue, 05\/19\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-05-19","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4955,"title":"Travis Autry","view_node":"\/about\/people\/travis-autry","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETravis Autry, Ph.D., joined DARPA in May 2026 as a program manager in the Multi X Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research interests include quantum sensing and entanglement, PNT, integrated photonics, and optoelectronic semiconductor and MEMS devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Travis was a research and development scientist at HRL laboratories focused on quantum sensing and photonics. In that role, he served as technical and programmatic lead for a portfolio of sensor efforts including DARPA\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022\/research\/programs\/h6\u0022\u003EH6 program\u003C\/a\u003E and Veloci-RapTOR.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining HRL, he was a staff scientist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, working in quantum nanophotonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3324929f214edbd8caf79a6a0edbfd32\u0022\u003EPh.D., Physics, JILA - University of Colorado \/ NIST Joint Institute\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7f7aca6c962a537911202a144cd57494\u0022\u003EM.S., Physics, JILA - University of Colorado \/ NIST Joint Institute\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec44dfd25607af37ffda70438ca73b6d6\u0022\u003EB.S., Physics, University of Texas at Austin\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Travis Autry, Ph.D., joined DARPA in May 2026 as a program manager and has research interests in quantum nanophotonics, quantum sensing and entanglement, Positioning Navigation Timing (PNT),\u00a0 integrated photonics, optoelectronic semiconductor, and MEMS devices.","summary_trimmed":"Travis Autry, Ph.D., joined DARPA in May 2026 as a program manager and has research interests in quantum nanophotonics, quantum sensing and entanglement, Positioning Navigation Timing (PNT),\u00a0 integrated photonics, optoelectronic semiconductor, and MEMS devices.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Travis","field_last_name":"Autry","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Hardware|Photonics|Positioning Navigation Timing (PNT)","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-05-22T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 05\/22\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-05-22","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":4974,"title":"Jeffrey Daulton","view_node":"\/about\/people\/jeffrey-daulton","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJeffrey Daulton, Ph.D., is a program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO). He joined DARPA in May 2026.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is interested in pursuing paradigm-disrupting technologies that use approaches underpinned by physics, chemistry, AI\/ML, and advanced processing to break the typical trade space in design of advanced microelectronics and materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Daulton was a staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. During this time, he invented approaches for atomic layer etching (ALE) of wide bandgap semiconductors and applied these to the fabrication of advanced heterostructure devices and preparation of atomically-smooth diamond surfaces. Across industry and research roles, he has contributed to the advancement of multiple semiconductor technology platforms as an individual contributor and team lead, including GaAs epitaxy, SiC and GaN RF and power transistors, and SiGe tunneling devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis Ph.D. work at Brown University resulted in world record current density, transconductance, and gain in group III-nitride hot electron transistors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e5838ece0015770bbe47bac0871e83a68\u0022\u003EPh.D., Electrical Engineering, Brown University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e6758a469ab4edb5f396bef22959c53a1\u0022\u003ESc.M., Electrical Engineering, Brown University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e97f4f1dd3bb132a60e801c0febba118e\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Jeffrey Daulton, Ph.D., has research interests pursuing paradigm-disrupting technologies that use approaches underpinned by physics, chemistry, AI\/ML, and advanced processing to break the typical trade space in design of advanced microelectronics and materials.","summary_trimmed":"Jeffrey Daulton, Ph.D., has research interests pursuing paradigm-disrupting technologies that use approaches underpinned by physics, chemistry, AI\/ML, and advanced processing to break the typical trade space in design of advanced microelectronics and materials.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Jeffrey","field_last_name":"Daulton","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Chemistry|Materials Science|Microchips|Microsystems","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-06-01T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 06\/01\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-06-01","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":5039,"title":"Jason Chou","view_node":"\/about\/people\/jason-chou","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Chou, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in the Multi X Office (MXO) in June 2026. His research focuses on creating technological surprise through advanced photonics, signal processing, AI\/ML algorithms, mW\/mmW\/THz systems, high performance computing, unconventional computing, and integrated photonic and electronic circuits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Chou was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In his most recent role at LLNL, he developed advanced optical technologies to process, generate, and detect signals across the electromagnetic spectrum. During his tenure, he also deployed one of the world\u2019s largest RF-photonic networks at the National Ignition Facility\u2014an effort that earned an R\u0026amp;D 100 Award\u2014to protect high-value optics. Additionally, Chou founded and led the Advanced Photonic Systems Section at LLNL, pioneering a technical strategy for novel photonic circuitry designed to operate in contested and congested electromagnetic environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChou is the author or co-author of more than 45 publications and patents. He concurrently serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Samueli School of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e234df617dd92ccd22f95c52366e44027\u0022\u003EM.B.A., Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e09e4c65a45c4998794c3fa93db079bc1\u0022\u003EPh.D., Electrical Engineering, UCLA\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e812dbeb62e2b366a693466b1375d6763\u0022\u003EM.S., Electrical Engineering, UCLA\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ed026e8fa3e509477ff93761d285197ca\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, UCLA\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Jason Chou, Ph.D., has research focuses on creating technological surprise through advanced photonics, signal processing, AI\/ML algorithms, mW\/mmW\/THz systems, high performance computing, unconventional computing, and integrated photonic and electronic circuits.","summary_trimmed":"Jason Chou, Ph.D., has research focuses on creating technological surprise through advanced photonics, signal processing, AI\/ML algorithms, mW\/mmW\/THz systems, high performance computing, unconventional computing, and integrated photonic and electronic circuits.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Jason","field_last_name":"Chou","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Multi X Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"196","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS)|High Performance Computing (includes Processing)|Microchips","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-06-12T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 06\/12\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-06-12","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":5234,"title":"Patrick Highland","view_node":"\/about\/people\/patrick-highland","body":"\u003Cp\u003ELt. Col. Patrick \u201cDice\u201d Highland, Ph.D., U.S. Air Force, joined DARPA in June 2026 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. His areas of focus include measuring and classifying human trust in AI systems, human-machine teaming, aerospace engineering, air combat autonomy, and optimization of flight systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHighland is a commander and experimental test pilot with more than 3,300 flight hours (289 combat) across over 50 different aircraft types. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImmediately prior to coming to DARPA, Highland was a Chief of Staff of the Air Force Blue Horizons Fellow at the Air Force Center for Strategy and Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3324929f214edbd8caf79a6a0edbfd32\u0022\u003EPh.D., Industrial Engineering, The University of Iowa\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7f7aca6c962a537911202a144cd57494\u0022\u003EM.S., Airpower Strategy and Technology Integration, Air War College\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec44dfd25607af37ffda70438ca73b6d6\u0022\u003EM.S., Industrial Engineering, The University of Iowa\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eb91f009955f9a6b5fe00b67ca7e16661\u0022\u003EM.S., Flight Test Engineering, United States Air Force Test Pilot School\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e9f5f7b588902ced60a026171be80c9be\u0022\u003EM.Eng., Engineering, University of Nebraska\u2014Lincoln\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e8b8c03398cf1bc3098961f2b1a64c120\u0022\u003EB.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Lt. Col. Patrick \u201cDice\u201d Highland, Ph.D., U.S. Air Force, has research interests in measuring and classifying human trust in AI systems, human-machine teaming, aerospace engineering, air combat autonomy, and optimization of flight systems.","summary_trimmed":"Lt. Col. Patrick \u201cDice\u201d Highland, Ph.D., U.S. Air Force, has research interests in measuring and classifying human trust in AI systems, human-machine teaming, aerospace engineering, air combat autonomy, and optimization of flight systems.","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Patrick","field_last_name":"Highland","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Tactical Technology Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"198","field_research_topics":"Air|Algorithms|Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Autonomy|Machine Learning (ML)|Uncrewed","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-07-09T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EThu, 07\/09\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-07-09","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":5347,"title":"Gautam Parthasarathy","view_node":"\/about\/people\/gautum-parthasarathy","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGautam Parthasarathy, Ph.D., joined DARPA in August 2026 as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office. He is interested in fostering interdisciplinary concepts in materials science to challenge conventional limits and open new performance regimes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, Parthasarathy spent more than 20 years at General Electric Global Research and GE Aerospace Research where he originated and led interdisciplinary research spanning electronic, optical, structural, and architected materials. He built cross-functional teams to translate early-stage scientific ideas into technologies for aerospace, energy, and healthcare applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis early research focused on light-emitting and light-harvesting materials for solid-state lighting and photovoltaics and later expanded to radiation detection and imaging. He subsequently worked on architected materials, ceramic scaffolds, and materials and manufacturing approaches for sensing and operation in extreme environments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcross these areas, his work explored how composition, architecture, processing, and structure can be combined to create new functionality and performance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e01319ba0b66f0ba97908055280c0d8cb\u0022\u003EPh.D., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef3e2fc807c0458f36ce96af5e865e5f1\u0022\u003EB.S., Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Gautam Parthasarathy, Ph.D., has research interests in fostering interdisciplinary concepts in materials science to challenge conventional limits and open new performance regimes.\u0026nbsp;","summary_trimmed":"Gautam Parthasarathy, Ph.D., has research interests in fostering interdisciplinary concepts in materials science to challenge conventional limits and open new performance regimes.\u0026nbsp;","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Gautam","field_last_name":"Parthasarathy","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Defense Sciences Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"194","field_research_topics":"Electronics|Materials Science|Med-Devices|Sensors","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-08-24T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EMon, 08\/24\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-08-24","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":5367,"title":"Sanjai Narain","view_node":"\/about\/people\/sanjai-narain","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESanjai Narain, Ph.D., joined DARPA as a program manager in June 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis areas of expertise are artificial intelligence, mathematical logic, formal verification, robotics, cyber-physical systems design, nonlinear optimization, network and cloud infrastructure synthesis, programming languages, discrete-event simulation, and electrical engineering. His research has been in collaboration with major academic and industrial partners, most recently, Princeton and Imperial College, London.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, he was a fellow and chief scientist at Peraton Labs (formerly Bellcore) and a research scientist at the RAND Corporation. He has 12 issued patents and 16 major publications. He has served on editorial boards and program committees of IEEE and ACM journals and conferences, on NSF panels, and on thesis committees at Princeton and Yale.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENarain\u0027s notable contributions include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e007793f0ed3aa55cfdb2bb154e7fe6c9\u0022\u003EA minimalist, LQR-based shipboard crane controller for safe material transfer on the high seas\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e5e984a37ff36811d5188e2e20dd3faed\u0022\u003ECNMA, a method for constrained nonlinear black-box optimization that combines neural networks, mixed-integer linear programming, and a learning-from-failure feedback loop to outperform Bayesian optimization\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e8d75a5ac1601556bc04d18659be18041\u0022\u003EDeformable connectors that transform a discrete-continuous optimization problem into a purely continuous one\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e158a406b300922499ab89d0855c766de\u0022\u003EA Science of Configuration for the decentralized synthesis, optimal repair, and safe migration of network and cloud configurations\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec234bfc0f40eb879729cbb07806fa913\u0022\u003ESymbolic discrete-event simulation\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef5f27157eae420c412fe5c1b98e34bfd\u0022\u003EA low-cost method for evaluating the bandwidth supportable by a local phone loop\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3e8bd1bbdb3006d718eca7efb9294d5d\u0022\u003EAn efficient method of lazy, or demand-driven, evaluation achieved not by changing efficient eager interpreters, but by changing the programming style\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec2d3223c1574e601ad8838c83ab47654\u0022\u003EPh.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e7414a38e8d1645961df8b6edb7a02682\u0022\u003EM.S., Computer Science, Syracuse University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e4160a7eb7d0e76ddeca5b93114299fa7\u0022\u003EB.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"Sanjai Narain, Ph.D., has areas of expertise are artificial intelligence, mathematical logic, formal verification, robotics, cyber-physical systems design, nonlinear optimization, network and cloud infrastructure synthesis, programming languages, discrete-event simulation, and electrical engineering. 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","field_salutation":"","field_first_name":"Sanjai ","field_last_name":"Narain","field_role_1":"1097","field_role":"Program Manager","field_taxonomy_office":"Information Processing Techniques Office","field_taxonomy_office_1":"195","field_research_topics":"Artificial Intelligence (AI)|Formal Methods","field_start_date":"\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-start-date field--type-datetime field--label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003EStart Date\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222026-08-28T12:00:00Z\u0022 class=\u0022datetime\u0022\u003EFri, 08\/28\/2026 - 12:00\u003C\/time\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \u003C\/div\u003E\n","field_start_date__raw":"2026-08-28","field_image":"","image_url":""},{"nid":5512,"title":"Shawn Naigle","view_node":"\/about\/people\/shawn-naigle","body":"\u003Cp\u003ERetired Lt. Col. Shawn Naigle, Ph.D., U.S., Army, joined DARPA in September 2026 as a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office. His research interests include increasing survivability and sustained lethality of ground forces through tactical autonomy, contested logistics, and next-generation low-SWAP systems for dismounted operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to DARPA, Naigle recently served as the deputy associate director at the U.S. Army Development Command (DEVCOM) Aviation \u0026amp; Missile Center. In this role, he has led multidisciplinary research and development efforts to address complex vertical lift system technology challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research has included aerodynamic flow control and rotorcraft technologies, with publications examining vortex dynamics, discrete-jet flow control, and the aerodynamic behavior of advanced configurations. He has also contributed to Army research addressing autonomous operations in unknown and dynamic battlespaces, advanced aeromechanical modeling and simulation, and air-vehicle design optimization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003EEducation\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e35543edd44ce4e96c62375249632d3a3\u0022\u003EPh.D., Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e92702d830d5618b24a3b29dee25f526a\u0022\u003EM.S., Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Ohio State University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ed12cf3fa8fd457ac742ccddc0103415a\u0022\u003EB.S., Mechanical Engineering (Aeronautical Systems), U.S. Military Academy\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"Retired Lt. Col. 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Her research interests are complexity, phase transitions, and emergence in engineered systems and resilient megasystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining DARPA, she was a tenured professor of systems engineering for 20 years and published more than 110 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in the areas of requirements engineering, design complexity, phase transition in natural and engineered systems, systems aging and obsolescence, and flexibility and resilience of engineered systems and space systems. 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