Mark Greaves

Mark Greaves is Vice President of Schmidt Sciences, where he is responsible with the President for shaping and executing the scientific, philanthropic, and organizational strategy of the organization.  Prior to this, Mark led Schmidt Sciences’ AI and Advanced Computing Institute, which supports fundamental research in artificial intelligence and the application of AI and data science across a wide variety of disciplines.

Prior to joining Schmidt Sciences, Mark was a senior leader in AI and data analytics within the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he created and managed large research programs in AI on behalf of the US Government. Prior to this, Mark was Director of Knowledge Systems at Vulcan Inc., the private asset management company for Paul Allen, where he led global research teams in question–answering textbooks, large knowledge graphs, semantic web, and crowdsourcing. Prior to Vulcan, Mark was Director of DARPA’s Joint Logistics Technology Office and Program Manager in DARPA’s Information Exploitation Office. At DARPA, he directed national research programs in semantic web technology, formal ontology specification, logistics and supply chain control technologies, and the application of software agent technology to problems of distributed control of complex systems-of-systems. Mark was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his contributions to US national security while serving at DARPA.

He holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Amherst College, an MS in Computer Science from UCLA, and a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University.