Richard Heimann

Richard Heimann is Chief AI Officer at Cybraics Inc. A fully managed cybersecurity company focusing on advanced threat detection, Cybraics was founded in 2014 and operationalized many years of machine learning research conducted at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Heimann is a former chief data scientist and technical fellow at L-3 National Security Solutions; former adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he taught graduate-level spatial econometrics and statistical reasoning; and an instructor at George Mason University, where he taught computational social science. He continues to be an advisor at George Mason University’s DataLab and several early-stage artificial intelligence ventures. Heimann has also performed on DARPA’s Nexus 7 program supporting ISAF and 82nd Airborne Division in Kandahar Afghanistan, the Naval Research Laboratory, and also consulted at the Pentagon on various AI projects and AI strategy.