Jennifer Roberts

Jennifer Roberts joined ARPA-H in February 2023 from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she was the assistant director of Health Technologies. She has a broad background in both engineering and computer science and has overseen research programs and strategy development on topics such as cybersecurity, healthcare data interoperability, AI for synthetic biology, and information integrity. Before joining the White House, Roberts was the Deputy Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA. There, she received the prestigious Superior Public Service Medal for her contributions to the fields of AI and cyber security. Roberts has a PhD in computer science from MIT, which she attended as both a National Science Foundation and Hertz Foundation Fellow.