Speaker

Dr. Peter Highnam became director of NGA’s research organization in July 2015. Prior to this he served at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) initially as the Office Director of Incisive Analysis, and then as Director. He was also involved in high performance computing activities in the Department of Energy and the National Strategic Computing Initiative. Before IARPA, he worked for the Department of Health and Human Services. As a senior advisor in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he had responsibilities in multiple areas where high performance computing meets biomedicine and public health, including computational epidemiology.