Jill Crisman

Dr. Jill Crisman is the vice president and Executive Director of the Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI) at UL Research Institutes.

Before joining UL Research Institutes, Dr. Crisman was the principal director for AI/ML Modernization in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), the Chief Scientist for the Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), and the Chief Scientist at Next Century Corp. At the JAIC and within OUSD(R&E), she worked to help modernize the Department of Defense for both agile software and AI systems. She also served as a Program Manager for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and was a founding faculty member of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

Throughout her career, she worked on numerous computer vision applications including robotic navigation, satellite image understanding, 3-D reconstruction from video, and tracking objects through multi-view surveillance video Dr. Crisman earned her PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where, for her thesis, she created some of the first computer vision perception algorithms for self-driving cars.