Angela Sheffield is a strategic leader driving transformational change across the US government in the most pressing issues of national security importance: nuclear weapons proliferation and artificial intelligence (AI). (Follow progress at #NextGenerationAI.)

Angela leads the US government’s premier program to develop AI systems to transform national security and fulfill mission requirements across the US government to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation and reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism. She directs research and development (R&D) efforts at the DOE National Laboratories and in academia and industry, to advance the state-of-the-art and develop next-generation AI technologies suitable for national security missions.