Kathleen Fisher

In 2011, Kathleen Fisher left AT&T Labs to become a program manager at DARPA. At DARPA, she founded and led the High-Assurance Cyber ​​Military Systems (HACMS) and the Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML) programs. The HACMS program focused on using formal methods to protect military vehicles from hacking. The program used a red team of hackers who attempted to break into a quadcopter using any method short of a physical connection. Initially, the red team was able to quickly compromise the quadcopter, but by the end of the program, they were unable to break into the quadcopter at all. This program was a huge success and has since expanded to more complex vehicles such as Boeing's Unmanned Little Bird. Fisher left DARPA in July 2014 but continues to lead its ISAT study area.

While working at DARPA, Fisher accepted a position as a professor of computer science at Tufts University.

After graduating, Kathleen Fisher began working at AT&T Labs Research. In April 2002 she was promoted to Principal Member of Technical Staff.