Lisa Einstein

Lisa Einstein is the Chief AI Officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within the Department of Homeland Security. In this role, Einstein leads CISA’s efforts to responsibly adopt AI tools that can help advance the agency’s mission and works to identify and mitigate risks to U.S. critical infrastructure associated with AI.

Einstein previously served as Senior Advisor for AI at CISA and as Executive Director of CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. In her previous roles, she led the development and implementation of CISA’s AI Roadmap, an actionable plan to promote beneficial uses of AI to enhance CISA’s cybersecurity capabilities, ensure AI systems are protected from cybersecurity threats, and mitigate the risks malicious uses of AI pose for critical infrastructure.

Einstein is a part-time research advisor in the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory, where she provides guidance to students, postdoctoral scholars, and research teams on policy-relevant AI safety and security, and applications of AI to real-world, global problems. While working on her master’s degrees at Stanford, she led Lt. Gen. (ret) H.R. McMaster’s research team on emerging technologies and geopolitics and conducted AI research. She was a Staff Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and was a National Security Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).

Einstein was Stanford’s first dual master’s degree recipient in computer science (artificial intelligence concentration) and international policy (cyber policy and security concentration). She received her BA from Princeton in physics and dance.