Richard was the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Silversky and, before that, at Cybraics. He previously supported DARPA on the Network Defense program, the goal of which was the research and development of unsupervised machine learning and behavioral analytics on the complex and ill-defined problem of intrusion detection and distributed computation. He also performed on DARPA’s Nexus 7 program, which won a Joint Meritorious Unit Award. Heimann is the former Chief Data Scientist and Technical Fellow at L-3, a former adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, where he taught computational statistics and statistical reasoning, and an instructor at George Mason University, where he taught computational social science. Richard has published Doing AI: A Business-Centric Examination of AI Culture, Goals, and Values, released December 14th, 2021. The book explores AI for what it is, the problems it can truly solve, and what others want it to become. Currently, he is an independent advisor and consultant.
