AI in Defense, National Security, Ethics and Secure AI | Dr. Amanda Muller | Stories in AI

I had a great conversation about AI in defense and national security applications with Dr. Amanda Muller. Amanda is a Technical Fellow leading Responsible AI at Northrop Grumman. We talked about national security use cases, the new age of war, the role of policy and governance and why the government is concerned about AI in everyday lives.

Show Notes/Resources: For Northrop Grumman's AI initiatives, visit https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning/

Resource Alert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw is a Youtube channel explaining complex topics in simple terms AI within the DOD/Joint AI Center: https://www.AI.mil

Carnegie Mellon University's AI blog: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/our-work/artificial-intelligence-engineering/

Stories in AI: https://www.youtube.com/c/GaneshPadmanabhan/featured for practical insights on AI from the industry

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandacmuller/

Bio:

Dr. Amanda Muller is a Consulting (AI) Systems Engineer and Technical Fellow based in Northern Virgina. Dr. Muller currently serves as the Responsible AI Lead for Northrop Grumman. In this role, she is responsible for coordinating the strategy, policy, and governance efforts related to Artificial Intelligence ethics across the Northrop Grumman enterprise. As a Mission Systems Technical Fellow specializing in User Experience and Human-Systems Integration, she also serves as a subject matter expert on proposals, program reviews, and research efforts.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Muller worked for Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Redondo Beach, California, as a Systems Engineer. She led the User Experience teams for several restricted space programs, conducting user research in operational environments around the world. Previously, Dr. Muller served as a Systems Engineer on State Health and Human Services programs, as a Human Factors Engineer in Aurora, Colorado, and as the Human-Systems Integration lead for airborne platforms in Melbourne, Florida.

In addition to her program roles, Dr. Muller has been a mentor in the Mentoring the Technical Professional program for over seven years. Dr. Muller’s publications include a book chapter in Emerging Trends in Systems Engineering Leadership: Practical Research from Women Leaders (in press), and peer-reviewed articles in Information Fusion, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, and the Annals of Biomedial Engineering.

Dr. Muller holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. She also holds a graduate certificate in Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation from Stanford University. Dr. Muller is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), Professional Scrum Master (Scrum.org), and is certified in Professional Scrum with User Experience (Scrum.org).