CPT Leo Kosta

CPT Leonard “Leo” Kosta is an instructor and course director in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the United States Military Academy (USMA), where he joined the faculty in 2023.

He graduated from USMA in 2017 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and Russian and commissioned as a cyber officer. As part of the Draper Scholars program, he earned his master's degree in computer science from Boston University in 2019. During his studies, he published five papers in machine learning and related disciplines.

In 2020, he completed the 17A Cyber Basic Officer Leader Course. His first assignment was as a 17D cyber capability developer in the ARCYBER Technical Warfare Center, where he wrote machine learning applications to support senior leader decision-making. In 2021, CPT Kosta graduated from the 17D Cyber Captains Career Course. He then returned to the ARCYBER Technical Warfare Center, where he applied machine learning to information advantage operations related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

He is qualified as a senior developer and is pursuing master developer qualification.