Florence Hudson is a strategic technology leader and founder with a cross-sector track record spanning academia, government, industry and non-profits, currently serving as Co-Principal Investigator on a DARPA SBIR and Executive Director of Columbia’s Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub. She brings deep expertise in AI, big data, blockchain, IoT and cybersecurity from senior roles at IBM and Internet2 and has led more than $10M in NSF, NIH, DOT and DARPA-funded initiatives focused on responsible data science and health equity. A published editor and author with Springer, Elsevier and IEEE, she couples technical credibility with board-level governance experience, including a NASDAQ-listed directorship. Her career began in aerospace engineering at Grumman and JPL, an origin that informs her systems-thinking approach to complex socio-technical problems. Florence also advises NSF, DOE and international research programs, blending research-to-practice transitions with practical innovation consulting through her firm FDHint.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education, Finance and Accounting Executive Program, Executive Education, Finance and Accounting Executive Program at Columbia University
Strategic Leadership Forum, Strategic Education for IBM Senior Executives, Strategic Leadership Forum, Strategic Education for IBM Senior Executives at Harvard Business School
BSE, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, BSE, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
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