Eric Engstrom

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.