Leadership

Nina Amla is the Senior Research Development Officer in the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Collaborative Research. Her fifteen-year-long tenure at the National Science Foundation, as a senior science advisor and a program director, was dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary research directed at global and societal challenges. She led the development of several impactful interdisciplinary programs ranging from developing sociotechnical approaches to cybersecurity to exploring how computing technologies like AI can accelerate scientific discovery to designing software systems that are demonstrably accountable to law or regulation. Prior to the NSF, she was a researcher at Cadence Design Systems, exploring new formal methods to improve the correctness of computing systems. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, and has served on numerous interagency policy committees and working groups focused on research and innovation in science and technology.