The industry veteran and SRI Fellow brings deep knowledge across an array of technical disciplines.
SRI announced the promotion of Patrick Lincoln to President of its Information & Computing Sciences (ICS) division. Lincoln brings deep knowledge across an array of technical disciplines, experience working with commercial and government clients, and an extraordinary track record leading multidisciplinary groups on high-impact projects. In 2005, he was named an SRI Fellow, the organization’s highest technical honor for individuals, recognition of sustained and exceptional technical, scientific, and professional contributions to solving important problems for clients and society.
“Pat’s appointment brings a new era of leadership to this division and to SRI,” said David Parekh, CEO of SRI. “With his expertise and dedication, he will advance the team in very important areas like AI, human-machine collaboration, trust and security, and beyond. His appointment represents a bold vision as SRI continues to invent and deliver technology that impacts millions of lives.”
“I am honored to take on this role at SRI, an amazing place to work and collaborate across many fields,” said Lincoln.
Lincoln joined SRI in 1989 and has served as Vice President of ICS and Director of the Computer Science Lab (CSL), where he has led research projects in the fields of formal methods, computer security and privacy, national security, scalable distributed systems, nanoelectronics, and many other.
Under his leadership, SRI has made significant contributions to the formal analysis of systems, cyber-security, languages, and protocols in computer security, privacy, fault tolerance, and integration into scalable and survivable systems.
“I am honored to take on this role at SRI, an amazing place to work and collaborate across many fields,” said Lincoln. “There is nothing more exciting than working with the passionate people here and developing new ways to solve big problems, and I am eager to work with my colleagues throughout the institute to do so.”
Lincoln previously held positions at Millennial Challenge Corporation (MCC), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Control Data, and helped found several companies. He has advised several boards and panels for U.S. government agencies, commercial organizations, and nonprofits, has published dozens of papers, and holds numerous patents. Lincoln earned his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and his B.Sc in Computer Science from MIT.
