Joseph Zipkin

Dr. Joseph Zipkin leads the Cyber Operations and Analysis Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is responsible for researching and developing novel system architectures and technologies to promote mission assurance against cyber threats.

Zipkin became leader of the Cyber Operations and Analysis Technology Group in 2022, and strategically realigned the group to deliver analysis and technology to make national-security missions cyber resilient and defensible. The group works to measure and increase resilience in mission architectures, and to make U.S. cyberspace operations more effective.

During his career at the Laboratory, Zipkin has held technical leadership and research roles in mission areas including cybersecurity; homeland protection; space control; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). For three years he was assistant leader of the Artificial Intelligence Software Architectures and Algorithms Group. In that role, he was responsible for the development and execution of the group’s portfolio of artificial intelligence research. He led rapid transition of several key analytic technologies to Combatant Commands to aid in the initial responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He is the recipient of an R&D 100 Award for his leadership role in a novel analytic prototype applying causal inference to problems in graph theory.

Zipkin holds an AB degree from Princeton University, an MA degree from UCLA, and a PhD degree from UCLA, all in mathematics.