CPT Leo Kosta

CPT Leonard “Leo” Kosta graduated as a Cyber officer from the United States Military Academy in 2017 with a B.S. in computer science and Russian. As part of the Draper Scholars program, he earned his M.S. 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. CPT Kosta returned to West Point in 2023 and now teaches in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.