Innovation & technological leadership
The institutional conditions supporting scientific discovery and technological progress.
Research-security workScience, security, and the conditions for discovery.
Ria serves as Main Staff on Hoover’s Project Innovation, a national-security study of U.S. scientific innovation and technological leadership.
Current work
Institutional questions with practical consequences.
The project spans AI leadership, research security, international cooperation, governance, and public trust. Ria’s role builds on her work across the National Academies research-security roundtable, federal consultations, and the STS Forum.
Cooperation, security & trust
Scientific collaboration amid changing national-security and governance priorities.
STS Forum