Colin Shea-Blymyer is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the CyberAI Project. His research has spanned safe reinforcement learning, formal methods, adversarial machine learning, and AI ethics. Previously, he was a graduate researcher with MITRE, where he helped establish the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) program on adversarial machine learning research at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE). He holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Oregon State University, where he was an Outstanding Scholar Fellow.

Dr. Nazish Jeffery is a Bioeconomy Policy Manager with the Federation of American Scientists focused on national and global bioeconomy policy development. Prior to joining FAS, Nazish was a process development scientist in the biotech industry in Boston, MA.
Nazish graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine with her PhD in biochemistry and molecular Biology. During her time in graduate school, Nazish founded the Science Policy Initiative to promote science policy at the graduate level. In addition, she has previously volunteered with FAS to promote STEM funding and has also interned at the American Institute of Biological Sciences working specifically on how to improve and advance the US bioeconomy. Nazish has extensive experience in communicating science to a variety of stakeholders and developing recommendations to advance the US STEM initiative.

Dr. Cameron Liang joined IDA in 2020, after completing a Ph.D in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and a researcher position at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He uses high-performance computing to simulate structure formation in the Universe, with an emphasis on galaxy formation and galactic “atmosphere”. At IDA, Cameron continues to work on space-related topics, such as orbital debris and space domain awareness.