Alexander Hillman

Alexander Hillman is a Major in the United States Air Force assigned to the Massachusetts Institute Technology as a PhD student in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. A recipient of the Air Education & Training Command Developing Airmen We Need Fellowship, Alex has been a data scientist for the Air Force for more than ten years.

Alex holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a minor in Russian Language from the United States Air Force Academy. A career flight tester and C4ISR systems developer for the U.S. Air Force, Alex is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. He holds master’s degrees in operations research, Systems Engineering, Flight Test Engineering, and Military Operational Art and Science.

Prior to his current assignment at MIT, Alex was the Chief Data Officer of the Air Force’s only Cyberspace Test Group at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, responsible for the data lifecycle for more than 250 test programs across a U.S. DoD portfolio that included joint, industry, and foreign partner projects. As the principal for analytics in the Cyber Test Group, Alex guided information management and analysis for a group of more than 700 military, government civilians, and support contractors.