Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Nadya Bliss, the Executive Director of Arizona State's Global Security Initiative. Before joining ASU in 2012, Bliss spent 10 years at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, most recently as a founding group leader of the Computing and Analytics Group. In this episode, she discusses her time at Lincoln Lab, what a federally funded Research and Development Center does, and the history of graph analytics.

Timestamps to jump to certain topics below:
Intro - (00:00)
Moving to the USA from the USSR -(01:00)
Working at Lincoln Laboratory - (06:30)
High Performance Computing -(13:13)
Graph Analytics - (20:47)
Deciding to Pursue a Ph.D. - (34:39)
Outro - (41:23)

Catalyzing Computing 2020

Global Security and Graph Analytics with Nadya Bliss (Part 1)

The mission of Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research.

The CCC's official podcast, "Catalyzing Computing," features interviews with researchers and policy makers about their background and experiences in the computing community. The podcast also offers recaps of visioning workshops and other events hosted by the CCC. If you want to learn about some of the computing community's most influential members or keep tabs on the latest areas of interest then this is the podcast for you. 

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