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

Catalyzing Computing

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)