Dr. Julia Allen - Chief Scientist, Autonomy and ArtificiaI Intelligence, Saab

Dr. Julia Allen is Chief Scientist, Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence, at Saab ( https://www.saab.com/ ) where her team’s primary focus is developing AI technologies to support the organization’s customers across all U.S. Department of Defense branches, helping government research and development leaders take on their hardest challenges.

Saab serves the global market with world-leading products, services and solutions from military defense in all domains to civil security.

Previously, Dr Allen was the director of artificial intelligence and tactical space research at BAE Systems FAST Labs(TM) and was the Principal Investigator of the DARPA MindfuL(TM) Competency-Aware Machine Learning and ONR Advanced Long Range Targeting programs.

Prior to joining BAE Systems, Dr. Allen was a member of the Senior Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and a Military Intelligence Officer in the Army National Guard.

Dr. Allen is a graduate of Dickinson College (B.S. - Mathematics) and Johns Hopkins University (M.S. - Applied and Computational Mathematics) and has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on Explainable Artificial Intelligence.