Shweta is Director of Data Science Futures and AI Strategist at SAIC. She is also an SAIC Technical Fellow. Shweta can help you zero in on the best articulation of your key problem and leverage solutions from diverse domains to innovate with speed. Shweta works across the enterprise to extract meaningful business outcomes from data. Shweta collaborates with business development teams and technologists on transformative solutions; is an AI thought leader to the enterprise and engages with customers to bring the future of data into the present.
Shweta has excelled in diverse domains including medicine, patent examination, aviation and neuroscience. Shweta has worked in a condensed matter physics lab at The George Washington University; as a neuroscience researcher and in critical care medicine, both at the National Institutes of Health where she published her first paper in Nature Neuroscience describing neural correlates of memory formation; as an electrical engineering patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office and for 12 years at the MITRE Corporation optimizing safety and efficiency for aviation. This included managing the largest aviation safety program in the world, through which Shweta’s team led the safety study of the 737B Max accidents for the FAA Administrator.
Shweta won a best paper award at DASC 40 for, “Assuring Human and Artificial Intelligence are Appropriately Informed in Aviation Systems”. Shweta also established a new work program with the FAA’s Office of Aerospace Medicine to transform human machine teaming in the cockpit.
Shweta lives in Falls Church, VA with her daughter Natalia, husband Jon, and cats Bosky and Mishka. She is a recipe tester for America’s Test Kitchen and will be a Virginia Master Naturalist in the Fall.
