PNNL

Mark Greaves is a senior technical leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics within the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He builds and manages large research programs in AI, bringing together outstanding scientists and engineers from the national laboratories, academia, and government to develop new and impactful capabilities in national security. Greaves actively works between United States government national security organizations and cutting-edge PNNL scientific teams, focusing on programs in AI (both machine learning and classical AI), web-scale open data and linked data, semantic computing, streaming analytics, and human-centered software systems. At PNNL, he has most recently served as principal investigator for a large national laboratories effort in data analytics and AI for nuclear proliferation detection. He has also served as principal investigator or project manager for several Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity programs, and led an internally funded five-year long PNNL initiative on data analytics and machine learning in streaming contexts. 

Previously, Greaves was the director of Knowledge Systems at Vulcan Inc.—the private asset management company for Paul Allen—where he led global research teams in question-answering textbooks, large knowledge bases, semantic web, crowdsourcing, and data-intensive AI technologies. He also served as the founding vice president of AI2.

Prior to Vulcan, Greaves was the director of DARPA’s Joint Logistics Technology Office, and a program manager in DARPA’s Information Exploitation Office. He directed national research programs in semantic web technology, formal ontology specification, logistics and supply chain control technologies, and the application of software agent technology to problems of distributed control of complex systems-of-systems. Prior to coming to DARPA, he worked on advanced programs in software agent technology at the Mathematics and Computing Technology group of Boeing. In May of 2005, Greaves was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his contributions to national security while serving at DARPA. He holds a PhD from Stanford University.

PhD, Stanford University