Dr. Erica Briscoe joined DARPA as a program manager in September 2022 to develop, execute, and transition programs in computational social science, socio-technical systems, and science and technology analysis.

Briscoe joins DARPA from the University of Maryland’s Department of Defense University-Affiliated Research Center (UARC), the Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), where she was the director of research. Previously, she was the senior vice president for strategy at an artificial intelligence (AI) security startup. Prior to that role, she was acting chief technology officer at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s UARC, Georgia Tech Research Institute, where she spent 12 years overseeing a large research portfolio. While there, she also executed her own research in computational social science, technology emergence and prediction, multi-modal reasoning, anticipatory intelligence, insider threat detection, terrorism/radicalization, and trusted AI.

Briscoe holds a doctorate and Master of Science in cognitive psychology from Rutgers University, a Master of Science in information systems from Drexel University, and a Bachelor of Science in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech.