Craig Martell
U.S. Dept. of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, U.S. Department of Defense
Dr. Craig Martell is the inaugural Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) in the US Department of Defense and reports directly to Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dr. Kathleen Hicks. He previously held the roles of Head of Machine Learning at Lyft and Head of Machine Intelligence at Dropbox. At LinkedIn, Dr. Martell led a number of machine-learning teams, as well as the development of the LinkedIn AI Academy. Dr. Martell was a computer science professor and Director of the NPS Natural Language Processing Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.
