Jill Crisman

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

Before joining UL Research Institutes, Crisman was the principal director for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning modernization in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), chief scientist for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), and 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 in Massachusetts.

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