Dr. Kristen Summers is MANTECH’s Chief Data and AI Officer.

As Chief Data and AI Officer, Dr. Kristen Summers leads MANTECH’s Data and AI Practice, setting the strategic direction for the company’s AI initiatives and helping clients turn AI adoption into meaningful mission outcomes.

She is responsible for growing an organization of advanced technical practitioners with deep insight into analytics, AI and client mission needs. She focuses on both strategic and tactical approaches to bring state-of-the-art AI solutions to clients. Her technical leadership also includes Research and Development goals, technical differentiation and strategic solutions.

Dr. Summers was previously an Operating Unit CTO at Microsoft Federal, where she focused on bringing advanced technology to government customers to help solve complex problems. She has been working in AI and related areas for over 20 years and has led projects on topics such as multilingual natural language processing, OCR enhancement, question answering and event forecasting. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Distinguished Engineer and AI CTO in IBM’s Expert Labs.

She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.