Misty Blowers

Blowers attended Oneida High School in Madison County, New York.^[2] She attended State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where she earned a Bachelors degree in Paper Science in 1995. After graduating she spent six years working at Chemical Process Equipment Suppliers designing new pulp mill systems. Blowers completed a Masters in Computer Science at Syracuse University in 2003.^[3] She obtained her doctorate in Applied Science and Engineering at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2009.^[2]

Blowers began to work for the Air Force Research Laboratory.^[2] She managed Cyber Operations and looked after over $175 million government contracts.^[3] Blowers has several patents for detection and tracking.^[4] She designed and developed a machine learning-based approach to monitor complex systems in real time and provide actionable alerts.^[5] In 2014 she was named "Technologist of the Year" by the Technical Association of Central New York, and is the only woman ever to win the prize.^[6]

She, along with a group of high school children, wrote the book Evolution of Cyber Operations and Technologies to 2035 in 2015.^[7] She founded Datalytica LLC in 2015.^[8] Blowers is involved with the development of programs for the US Department of Defense.^[9] She is an adjunct professor in Blockchain Technologies at George Mason University.^[5] Blowers was corporate director of strategic development at Peraton and performs similar work several other companies.^[10]

She was awarded the 2018 Early Achievement Award from SPIE.^[11] She was appointed to a NATO task force on Mission Assurance of Autonomous Unmanned Systems.^[5]