Don Swartwout is an AI/machine learning and systems architecture expert with deep roots in scientific data and telecommunications infrastructure. His career spans foundational work at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies — where he contributed to database systems, network surveillance, and programming environments — followed by more than two decades at CAS, where he has applied that systems thinking to data architecture, data science, and machine learning at scale. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and has taught graduate courses in system architecture and distributed systems at Franklin University.
