Poppy Crum, PhD, is a neuroscientist and technologist. She is currently Chief Technology Officer for Trimble Inc. and was previously Chief Scientist at Dolby Laboratories. Poppy is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and the Program in Symbolic Systems where her work focuses on the impact and feedback potential of modern technologies including gaming and immersive environments such as Augmented and Virtual Reality on neuroplasticity and learning.

Poppy is a U.S. vice-chair to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a member of the Consumer Technology Association’s Board of Industry Leaders and Board of Trustees, and a former member of the Defense Science Research Council (DSRC) of DARPA. Prior to joining Trimble and Dolby Laboratories Poppy was Research Faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Poppy is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society. She is a: 2021 recipient of the Hedy Lemarr award from the Digital Entertainment Group, a 2018 recipient of the Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership Award, a 2017 recipient of the Consumer Technology Association’s Technology and Standards Achievement Award for work towards the introduction of over-the-counter hearing-aid devices, and has been named to Billboard Magazine’s 100 most influential female executives in the music industry and TV-Technology's 2021 20 to Watch List Changing the Industry. Poppy is an author on 10 patent families connected to 37 patents. She is a frequent speaker including, TED, SXSW, IEEE, TNW, WIRED, on topics related to the intersection of: human experience, artificial intelligence, sensory data-science, and immersive technologies. Poppy believes the power of intelligent technologies is only realized with dynamic optimization and learning of as much of our personal and contextual data as possible. She is on a mission to build technologies that break out of one-size-fits-all solutions where the technology we surround ourselves in every day paired with ML and AI can uniquely enhance human capability and our interactions in the world.