Alexandra Van Dine

Dr. Alexandra Van Dine is an assistant leader in the Advanced Undersea Systems and Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this role, she leads a portfolio centered on the development of advanced technologies that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and autonomous systems capabilities for the undersea warfare community.

Van Dine joined Lincoln Laboratory in 2020, applying AI/ML techniques in the development of maritime and undersea algorithms pertaining to acoustic signature classification, anomaly detection, oceanographic forecasting, data segmentation, and object identification.

Van Dine is actively involved in the undersea community. She serves as the Laboratory representative for the Navy’s Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems 5A ML Working Group; helped defined the road map for AI/ML for the Navy’s next-generation attack submarine (SSN(X)) as part of the SSN(X) AI/ML Working Group; and is one of the U.S. facilitators for a program under the Pillar II trilateral security partnership between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.  

Van Dine’s work has been presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics and IEEE OCEANS, and at the Laboratory’s Air, Missile, and Maritime Defense Technology Workshop; Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence for National Security Workshop; and Defense Technology Seminar series. Van Dine holds MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California San Diego and a BS from the University of Virginia in aerospace engineering with an emphasis on applied mathematics.