Bill Scherlis is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He recently completed a second tour at DARPA, where he served as Director of the Information Innovation Office (I2O) from Sept 2019 to May 2022 and as Special Assistant to the Director from May to Sept 2022. As I2O director, he led program managers in the development of research programs in cyber operations, secure and resilient systems, AI, and information operations.