Dr. Amy Soller

Dr. Amy Soller is a former Department of War senior executive recognized for her contributions to AI strategy, policy, and mission integration. During her 15-year tenure at the DoW, she rose to serve as the Senior AI Lead, where she directed all AI capability development and production and led the Intelligence Community in the establishment and execution of national-level AI strategy, Following her government service, she led frontier LLM integration for the defense and intelligence enterprise at both NVIDIA and xAI. With over 30 years of experience in technical and executive leadership roles across the government and private sectors, she has overseen and managed multi-billion dollar missions for the Secretary of War and the Director of National Intelligence, supervised and mentored thousands of scientists and engineers, written U.S. national policies on wireless, technical surveillance, and counterintelligence, and stood up and co-chaired two National Intelligence Senior Steering committees in science and technology.

Prior to her government service, Dr. Soller served as a Senior AI Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, a science and technology advisor at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University. She is also a small business owner, having successfully run two independent AI consulting firms over her career. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in AI from the University of Pittsburgh Intelligent Systems Program, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Automated Reasoning Systems. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications on AI including several edited journals and books, and has served as the Chair, Steering, or Program Committee member for over 50 national and international conferences on AI, in addition to serving on numerous AI editorial boards. She currently also serves as a member of DARPA’s Information Science and Technology study group.