Dr. Kristen Summers joined ManTech in May 2024 in the role of VP and Artificial Intelligence Fellow at ManTech.

In this role, she leads the technical aspects of the Data Analytics and AI practice. She is responsible for growing an organization of advanced technical practitioners with deep insight into the fields of analytics and AI and our Government client mission needs. She is focused on both strategic and tactical approaches to bring state-of-the-art AI solutions to our clients. Her technical leadership will also focus on IRAD goals, technical differentiation, and strategic technical business development.

Dr. Summers was most recently an Operating Unit CTO in Microsoft Federal, where she focused on bringing advanced technology to Government customers to help them solve their hard problems. She has been working in AI and related areas for over 20 years. She has led projects on topics such as multilingual natural language processing, enhancement of OCR, question answering, and event forecasting. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Distinguished Engineer and AI CTO in IBM’s Expert Labs.

She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.