Dr. Laura Freeman
Associate Director, Intelligent Systems Lab
Director, Hume Center's Intelligent Systems Lab
Research Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Assistant Dean for Research at the National Capital Region
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dr. Laura Freeman is the Assistant Dean for Research in the National Capital Region within the College of Science at Virginia Tech. In addition to also serving as the Associate Director of the Intelligent Systems Lab at the Hume Center, Dr. Freeman is also a Research Associate Professor in the Statistics department at Virginia Tech. Previous to this, Dr. Freeman served as the Assistant Director of the Operational Evaluation Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses. She also served as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) on matters related to the test and evaluation of all acquisition programs in the Department of Defense. Dr. Freeman’s research areas include: Experimental Design considerations in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity Analytics. Reliability Analysis and Statistical Engineering. Laura Freeman also serves as a SERC Research Council member providing guidance, with a particular focus in Trusted Systems.
A true Hokie, Dr. Freeman received her Ph.D. and Masters in Statistics from Virginia Tech, with her doctoral thesis on: “Statistical Methods for Reliability Data from Designed Experiments.” She also earned her Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Virginia Tech.