Dr. Victoria Coleman is the former Director of DARPA. She serves
as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Center for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC
Berkeley where she is leading microelectronics technology policy.
Prior to DARPA she served as the Chief Executive Officer of Atlas
AI P.B.C, a Silicon Valley startup that brings world class AI
solutions to sustainable development. By combining satellite data
with other data sets, Atlas AI’s proprietary deep learning models
create actionable insights for governments, NGOs, and
commercial companies. Prior to joining Atlas AI, Coleman was the
Chief Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the
nonprofit that supports Wikipedia, where she oversaw the
organization’s Technology department and technical roadmap,
and was responsible for the evolution, development, and delivery
of core platforms and architecture. In this role, Dr. Coleman
worked to ensure an accessible and performant technology
infrastructure and anticipate scale and capability challenges for
the Wikimedia projects.
She was previously a Senior Vice President at Technicolor where she served as the CTO of the
Connected Home Business. Prior to Technicolor she was Senior Vice President R&D for Harman's
Infotainment Division. As Vice President Engineering at Yahoo! she was responsible for membership
services, presentation layer technologies and developer relations. At Nokia as Vice President,
Emerging Platforms she led a multi-disciplinary team creating strategic products including the Nokia
Z Launcher and the Nokia X line of smartphones. As Vice President, Software Engineering at HP Palm
GBU leading the webOS Platform team she built the HP Touchpad. As Vice President with Samsung's
Advanced Institute of Technology in charge of the Computer Science Laboratory in San Jose, CA she
initiated the development of Tizen and the Samsung Knox line of smartphones. She was previously
Intel's Director for Security Initiatives and the Director of the Trust and Manageability Laboratory in
Intel's Corporate Technology Group. She joined SRI International in 1998 after 10 years as a tenured
professor in the University of London. She became the founding Director of SRI’s System Design
Laboratory in 1999. She was a member of the Defense Science Board, a member (and founding Chair)
of DARPA's Microsystems Exploratory Council, a member of Lockheed Martin's Technology Advisory
Group, a member of Airbus Industries Starboard and a member of Santa Clara University’s Advisory
Board for the Department of Computer Engineering. She also served on the Board of Directors of the
Public Library of Science.