Dr. Jane Pinelis is the Chief of AI Assurance at the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). In this role, she leads a diverse team of testers and analysts in rigorous test and evaluation (T&E) for CDAO capabilities, as well as development of T&E-specific products and standards that will support testing of AI-enabled systems across the DoD. She also leads the team that is responsible for instantiating Responsible AI principles into DoD practices. Prior to joining the CDAO, Dr. Pinelis served as the Director of Test and Evaluation for USDI’s Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, better known as Project Maven. She directed the developmental testing for the AI models, including computer vision, machine translation, facial recognition and natural language processing.

Also, Dr. Pinelis led the design and analysis of the widely publicized study on the effects of integrating women into combat roles in the Marine Corps. Based on this experience, she co-authored a book, titled “The Experiment of a Lifetime: Doing Science in the Wild for the United States Marine Corps.”

Dr. Pinelis holds a BS in Statistics, Economics, and Mathematics, an MA in Statistics, and a PhD in Statistics, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.