Neeti Pokhriyal is an information scientist at RAND. Also a computer scientist, she has expertise and interest in research and policy aspects related to the design, deployment, and operationalization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in challenging contexts of national security. She also works on developing AI models for a better understanding of societal well-being. Pokhriyal is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery's U.S. Tech Policy Committee and contributes to their policy pieces. She also holds a visiting scholar appointment at the Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College.
Before RAND, she was at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). She was the 2022-23 AAAS Science and Technology Policy fellow at the NSF, where she worked on the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program, and was part of the leadership team of the ExpandAI program. She was the 2022 Mirzayan Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where she contributed to the work of the Committee on National Statistics. She completed her postdoc from the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in computer science from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where her doctoral work was awarded the Chih Foundation Research Award. Before her Ph.D., she was a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She obtained her M.S. in computer science from the University of California, Riverside, where she received the Dean's Distinguished Fellowship. She has consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Overseas Development Institute, UK.
Post-doc in computer science, Dartmouth College; Ph.D. in computer science and engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; M.S. in computer science, University of California, Riverside
Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College.
