Lisa Einstein

Lisa Einstein serves as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s first Chief AI Officer. In this role, she leads CISA’s efforts to responsibly adopt AI tools that can help advance the agency’s mission and works to identify and mitigate risks to U.S. critical infrastructure associated with AI. Einstein previously served as Senior Advisor for AI at CISA and as Executive Director of CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. In her previous roles, she led the development and implementation of CISA’s AI Roadmap, an actionable plan to promote beneficial uses of AI to enhance CISA’s cybersecurity capabilities, ensure AI systems are protected from cybersecurity threats, and mitigate the risks malicious uses of AI pose for critical infrastructure.

Outside of work, Einstein is a part-time research advisor in the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory. She was Stanford’s first dual master’s degree recipient in computer science (artificial intelligence concentration) and international policy (cyber policy and security concentration). While at Stanford, she led Lt. Gen. (ret) H.R. McMaster’s research team on emerging technologies and geopolitics and conducted AI research, including co-developing the first AI speech recognition models for three West African languages spoken by 10 million people in seven countries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she helped to organize a massively-scaled free virtual class that taught introductory coding skills to 22,000 students from 148 countries by mobilizing 2000 volunteer teaching assistants. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea, Lisa taught physics to over 600 students in a rural village. She received her BA from Princeton in physics and dance.