Project Innovation
Main Staff on a national-security study of scientific innovation, AI leadership, research security, and international cooperation.
Project InnovationResearch security & scientific governance
How open can science remain when knowledge is strategic?
Ria’s work connects scientific openness, technological competition, international collaboration, governance, and public trust.
From consultation to institution-building
Research security reaches beyond compliance.
Bahadur’s work spans the NASEM research-security roundtable at Hoover; consultations involving the National Science Foundation, Department of State, and Department of Defense; concurrent sessions at the Kyoto STS Forum; and her current role as Main Staff on Hoover’s Project Innovation.
The recurring tension is how scientific institutions preserve openness and international collaboration while protecting strategic knowledge and sustaining public trust.
NASEM · 2024
Research security, at eighteen.
Ria joined the discussion at the National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable’s Pacific Regional Meeting at Hoover.
Session 4 of 11 · 1:26:58–1:31:21
National Academies event record
STS Forum · Kyoto
Scientific governance in the room.
Rapporteur responsibilities and concurrent-session discussions at the Science and Technology in Society Forum brought these questions into conversation with senior scientific, policy, and institutional leaders.
Explore STS ForumNeurotechnology ethics
Academic (Medical) Stakeholder input by invitation through the U.S. Department of State.
UNESCO contribution