Eric Engstrom

Chief Information Officer
engstrom at sift dot net

B.A., Computer Science and Philosophy, Macalester College, St. Paul MN, 1990

Mr. Engstrom is SIFT's current Chief Informaiton Officer, aka "Paranoid In-Chief", and spends his days worrying about how SIFT can accomplish all manner of unique research ideas while ensuring that we do so in a secure and compliant fashion.

Before taking on that role, Mr. Engstrom had been a Senior SIFT Researcher and Principal Investigator for nearly 20 years, with broad expertise Software Engineering. In particular, his interests lie in the areas of Model-Based Development and Formal Methods. His areas of expertise also include embedded, real-time systems development, automated analysis of embedded software systems, as well as artificial intelligence, specifically automated planning.

Prior to joining SIFT, Mr. Engstrom was a researcher for Honeywell Laboratories, where he lead several large DARPA-funded research projects, covering his primary interest areas of modeling and formal analysis, as well as contributing to many other programs spanning many disparate areas where his broad-based experience proved invaluable. One of Mr. Engstrom's major contributions during his time at Honeywell includes the co-creation and evolution of 'DOME', a highly-regarded, user-extensible, domain-specific, model-based development environment.