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Acubed, Airbus’ Silicon Valley-based analysis and innovation centre, this present day launched the appointment of Dr Victoria Coleman as CEO, effective July 15, 2024. Dr. Coleman could presumably also support as Airbus’ Head of Research & Abilities for North The US.

Dr. Coleman brings a breadth of abilities to the dual role, as well to a unheard of be conscious legend of management, having most no longer too prolonged ago served as the Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force. In her recent role, she’s going to file to Robin Hayes, Chairman and CEO of Airbus Americas, Inc. and the Board of Directors of Acubed.

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Dr. Coleman’s appointment positions Acubed to proceed leading the trade in aerospace innovation and is instrumental to the guts’s mission of accelerating AI and autonomy adoption to raise Airbus’ competitive advantage. Her confirmed be conscious legend of fostering collaboration, driving technological pattern, and navigating complex technical landscapes will be helpful in guiding both Acubed and Airbus’ analysis and technology (R&T) ambitions. Her appointment underscores Airbus’ overall dedication to pushing the boundaries of what’s doubtless in aerospace technology.

Dr. Coleman has 35 years of abilities and abilities that extends all over more than one domains, from cybersecurity and computer science to emerging platforms and software engineering. In her role as Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Coleman became the preeminent scientific advisor to top management, including the Secretary of the Air Force, Air Force Chief of Team, and Chief of Dwelling Operations. Her responsibilities included assessing a huge sequence of scientific and technical points critical to the department’s mission, as well to figuring out and analyzing technical challenges to present innovative solutions. Sooner than her role as Chief Scientist, Dr. Coleman served as the twenty 2d Director of the Defense Superior Research Initiatives Agency (DARPA) the put she oversaw a gargantuan suite of disruptive and innovative programs. She brings a sturdy connection with academia thru her service as a Visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering & Laptop Sciences at UC Berkeley.

Past her govt service, Dr. Coleman has left an indelible attach on academia and trade alike and her spectacular profession trajectory contains govt roles at pioneering organizations such as Atlas AI P.B.C, the put she spearheaded the enchancment of cutting back-edge AI solutions for sustainable pattern. She became also the founding director of the Arrangement Manufacture Laboratory at SRI Worldwide, leading analysis in right systems and cybersecurity and winning improve from DARPA. She also held management positions at companies such as Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Yahoo, and the Wikimedia Basis.

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“It’s an honour to be half of Airbus to both pressure the corporate’s R&T ambition in the North American space and to develop into the next CEO of the corporate’s analysis and innovation arm in the coronary heart of Silicon Valley,” said Dr Coleman. “I survey forward to serving to additional leverage the skill and abilities in this space to additional Airbus’ core company ambitions.”

“We are delighted to welcome Dr. Victoria Coleman to Airbus,” said Hayes. “Her unparalleled abilities and management will be instrumental in driving both Acubed’s mission to pioneer transformative technologies that shape the prolonged slump of aerospace, as well to Airbus’ broader R&T ambitions.”

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