Victoria Coleman

Victoria Coleman is the Associate Provost for Berkeley Air & Space Center and a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She leads UC Berkeley’s vision and strategy for the 36-acre innovation hub at NASA Ames, designed to bring academia, industry and government together to identify, incubate and launch tomorrow’s technological breakthroughs. She previously served as Director of DARPA, Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, and CEO of Airbus’s Silicon Valley innovation center, Acubed. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, she has led innovation across government, industry, and academia for more than 35 years.