Lincoln Wallen

Lincoln Wallen is a computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of DreamWorks Animation.

Wallen has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Physics from Durham University in England and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh University in Scotland, supervised by Alan Bundy. He was subsequently an academic at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He then joined industry, working for the publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he was CTO of EA Mobile, a business he helped to grow to create a $180 million business over three years. He then served as CTO for the online publishing business of EA internationally. Finally, Wallen joined the Californian film animation company DreamWorks, initially as Head of Research and Development from 2008 and later promoted to the position of CTO since 2012.