Nadya Bliss

Dr. Nadya T. Bliss leads ASU's Global Security Initiative - the university's hub for interdisciplinary security research and primary interface with the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. She is also faculty in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering and is a Senior Fellow at New America. Prior to leading GSI, Dr. Bliss served as the assistant vice president, research strategy in ASU's Knowledge Enterprise Development, and spent 10 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, most recently as the founding group leader of the Computing and Analytics Group. Dr. Bliss has served on the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) ISAT (Information Science and Technology) advisory board where she co-chaired studies on Macro-Economics and Cyber Security and Science and Engineering of Functional Networks and presently serves on the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council.