Pentagon hails Lyft exec Martell for AI post – By Colin Demarest (Defense News) / April 25, 2022
WASHINGTON — The man in charge of machine learning at ride-share company Lyft will soon lead efforts to accelerate, align and harness data, analytics and artificial intelligence at the Department of Defense.
The Pentagon on April 25 named Dr. Craig Martell as its first chief digital and AI officer, a position that was unveiled late last year and is still being fleshed out.
Martell previously worked at Dropbox, where he was also head of machine learning, and LinkedIn, where he led “a number of AI teams and initiatives,” according to the Pentagon. Before that, he was a tenured computer science professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.
The department had been looking both inside and outside the Pentagon to fill the role.
