Wen Masters, Ph.D.

As vice president of the Center for AI, Cyber, and Digital, Wen Masters directs MITRE’s corporate cybersecurity strategy and serves as the champion for MITRE-wide cybersecurity capabilities. Leading a group of 1,200 experts, she oversees innovation centers in cyber solutions, cyber operations and effects, cyber infrastructure protection, and software engineering. The team addresses the most difficult cyber threats facing the nation and helps government and private industry secure critical infrastructure and defend against online theft and exploits by hostile adversaries.

Masters partners with MITRE’s federally funded research and development centers, including the National Cybersecurity FFRDC, extending MITRE’s impact through industry use of platforms such as the MITRE ATT&CK® framework and threat intelligence–sharing standards such as STIX™ and TAXII™.

Before joining MITRE in 2021, Masters was deputy director of research at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and co-lead of the Commission on Research Next, developing a roadmap and comprehensive strategy for Georgia Tech’s research enterprise. She also served as director of the Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate at GTRI, and as a principal research scientist at Georgia Tech.

Masters was a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, where she served as vice chair for the SIAM Imaging Science Activity Group and the Association for Women in Mathematics. She has published several articles in technical journals and conference proceedings, and edited a book, Mathematical Modeling in Optical Science.

In 2023, the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers honored Masters with a Career Achievement Award, and the Security Industry Association named her to its Women in Security Forum’s Power 100 class.

Masters holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Irvine.