Nadya Bliss

Dr. Nadya T. Bliss is a computer scientist focused on national security research and engineering, with specific expertise in cybersecurity and graph algorithms. As the Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University, she leads a pan-university organization advancing research, education, and other programming at the intersection of technology and national security. GSI centers focus on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data visualization and analytics, and geopolitical strategic competition. Prior to leading GSI, Dr. Bliss spent time as Assistant Vice President, Research Strategy at ASU and a decade in various positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, most recently as the founding Group Leader of the Computing and Analytics Group. Dr. Bliss is a Professor of Practice and graduate faculty in ASU’s School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. Actively involved in national service, she currently chairs the Computing Community Consortium. Bliss also serves on multiple National Academies engagements, including the Cyber Resilience Forum and a Standing Committee on Transformative Science and Technology for the Department of Defense. In July 2024, she was appointed as a member of the National Academies’ Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) and as chair of its Panel on Assessment of Network, Cyber, and Computational Sciences. She is a past chair and current steering committee member of DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Study Group.