Presenter
Laura Cassani
Biography
Ms. Laura Cassani is a Principal Research Engineer and the Deputy Director of the Intelligent Performance Analytics Division at Aptima, Inc. Her work focuses on innovation in the development and applications of artificial intelligence technologies to improve human and machine performance. Most recently, Ms. Cassani has been leading projects involving large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence. She has led several successful research and development efforts for the Department of Defense, serving as Principal Investigator on multiple projects for ONR, DARPA, AFRL, and MCSC. Ms. Cassani serves as the Principal Investigator for the test and evaluation technical area for DARPA’s Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program, which focuses on developing measurement methods to evaluate algorithms that aim to detect, attribute, and characterize semantic inconsistencies in multimedia and synthetically generated audio, video, text, and image data. Ms. Cassani also managed the DARPA Civil Sanctuary program that built an information operations testbed utilizing trained generative AI personas for experimentation. Ms. Cassani holds a MA in security studies from Georgetown University and a BA in international relations from Boston University.
Presentations
Lecture
Human AI Robot Teaming (AI)