Victoria Stavridou-Coleman is currently serving as the 37th

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. She took her oath of office on April 6, 2021, administered by the

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Charles Q. Brown Jr. She served as the 22nd Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); the third woman to hold such a position since the agency's inception in 1958. She was appointed on August 31, 2020, and took her oath of office on September 24, 2020, administered by the

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. Her last day at the agency was January 20, 2021.

Career

She has acted as a senior advisor to the Director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at

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. In the past, she held the position of CEO in Atlas AI, which is a public benefit corporation bringing world-class AI solutions to sustainable development. Prior to Atlas AI she acted as the CTO of the

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, and had the responsibility for the technology infrastructure of Wikipedia. She has also acted as a senior vice president at

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where she served as CTO of its Connected Home division. Prior to Technicolor she served as Senior Vice President R&D for Harman's Infotainment division. At

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as Vice President of Engineering, she had the responsibility for membership services, presentation layer technologies, and developer relations. At

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as the Vice President of the Emerging Platforms she led a multi-disciplinary team with the aim of creating strategic products, which included the Nokia Z Launcher and the

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line of smartphones. As the Vice President of Software Engineering at HP

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GBU she led the webOS Platform team and built the HP TouchPad. As the vice president with Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology in charge of the Computer Science Laboratory (San Jose, CA) she initiated the development of

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and the

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line for 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

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in 1998 after 10 years as a tenured professor in the

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. She became the founding Director of SRI's System Design Laboratory in 1999. She is also a former

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member, the founding Chair of DARPA's Microsystems Exploratory Council, and an adviser to companies, including

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and

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Early life

Coleman was born in

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. She received a B.Sc. in Electronic Computer Systems and an M.Sc. in Computer-Aided Logic Design from the

University of Salford , caption = Coat of ArmsUniversity of Salford , mottoeng = "Let us seek higher things" , established = 1850 - Pendleton Mechanics Institute 1896 – Royal Technical Institute, Salford 1967 – gained ...

, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. She holds four patents and is the author of more than 60 articles and books.

References

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