Hava Siegelmann

Hava Siegelmann is a professor of computer science, and a world leader in the fields of Lifelong Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Computational Neuroscience. Her academic position is in the school of Computer Science and the Program of Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; she is the director of the school's Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Lab. She was loaned to the federal government DARPA 2016-2019 to initiate and run their most advanced AI programs including her Lifelong Learning Machine (L2M) program. and Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deceptions (GARD). She received the rarely awarded Meritorious Public Service Medal - one of the highest honors the Department of Defense agency can bestow on a private citizen.