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Nadya T. Bliss is an American computer scientist and national security expert. She is a professor of practice at Arizona State University and serves as executive director of ASU’s Advanced Capabilities for National Security Institute, where she leads an organization conducting interdisciplinary research on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and national security..[1]
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Nadya T. Bliss | |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, cybersecurity, national security |
| Workplaces | Arizona State University |
Bliss has held leadership roles in organizations focused on advancing computing and defense-related research, including serving as chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), a program of the Computing Research Association that helps shape national computing research priorities, and serving as the Chair of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Science and Technology Study Group.[2]
Early life and education
Bliss earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Cornell University and later completed a Ph.D. at Arizona State University.[3]
Career
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Bliss worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2002 to 2012, serving as the founding group leader for its Computing and Analytics Group in 2012. In 2011, she was awarded Lincoln Laboratory's inaugural early career technical achievement award for work in parallel computing, computer architectures, and graph processing algorithms and her leadership in anomaly detection in graph-based data.[4]
Arizona State University
Bliss joined Arizona State University in 2012, where she has held senior leadership roles in research and national security initiatives. She serves as executive director of ASU’s Advanced Capabilities for National Security Institute and is a professor of practice in ASU's School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Research leadership and advisory roles
Bliss has served in multiple advisory roles related to U.S. science and technology research and national security. She served as chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) from July 2024 to September 2026, after having served as its vice chair for three years. In these roles, she contributed to its mission to 'catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research'.[5]
She has been involved in activities of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including the Forum on Cyber Resilience[6] and committees examining emerging science and technology challenges relevant to national defense.[7][8]
She served as a member on the National Academies’ Climate Security Roundtable[9], and has been appointed to the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB), where she chaired a panel on network, cyber, and computational sciences.[10]
Bliss has also served as chair, vice-chair and steering committee member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group[11], and serves on the University of Michigan's Institute for Data and AI in Society Advisory Board[12]
Public engagement and media
Bliss has been a frequent commentator on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and national security issues in U.S. media. She has appeared on PBS NewsHour, Arizona PBS programs, National Public Radio member station KJZZ in Arizona discussing topics including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure, and impacts of emerging technologies on society.[13] [14][15][16]
Bliss has contributed to public discussions on technology and national security, including in Time magazine[17], through the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists[18] and the McCain Institute's Sedona Forum, where she discussed geopolitics with two sitting United States Senators.[19]
Bliss has commented on methods for navigating the current information environment in Cyberscoop[20], Axios,[21] and KJZZ.[22]
Research
Bliss’s research spans cybersecurity, graph analytics, artificial intelligence, and national security applications. Her work focuses on understanding complex systems and anticipating unintended consequences of emerging technologies.
In 2011, she was a member of a team at MIT Lincoln Laboratory that was selected for an R&D100 award by R&D Magazine for developing a Parallel Vector Tile Optimizing Library[23]. She has contributed to scholarly research on technology and security, including a chapter in the edited volume War 4.0 on the impacts of increasingly broad access to sophisticated technologies.[24]
Recognition
Bliss was named among the Top 50 Women Leaders of Arizona in 2023 by The Women We Admire.[25]