Summer Rankin, PhD

Principal Solutions Architect at SAIC and a GTK Cyber senior instructor. Data scientist and AI/ML expert with 20+ years as a scientist and instructor. PhD in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences from Florida Atlantic University, with a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. 10+ peer-reviewed publications in machine learning, healthcare-AI, and neuroscience.

Expertise in deep learning and NLP, large language models and generative AI, MLOps architecture, digital signal processing, statistical time-series analysis, fraud and anomaly detection, and data pipeline architecture. Founder of the Women in AI Hawaii chapter and a mentor for women in data science.

Student feedback from Black Hat USA 2026, A Cyber Executive’s Guide for Artificial Intelligence: “Curtis + Summer are terrific, can’t wait to come back next year.” See all student evaluations.