Christina Liaghati

Working across a collaborative global community of industry, government, and academia, Dr. Christina Liaghati leads MITRE’s Trustworthy & Secure AI Department and MITRE ATLAS, where she passionately drives research and developments in trustworthy and secure AI for everyone working to leverage AI-enabled systems. Leading her department of 50+ scientist and engineers and serving the community with the not-for-profit, objective, MITRE perspective, she is dedicated to working together to create and openly share actionable tools, capabilities, data, and frameworks for trustworthy and secure AI like ATLAS, an ATT&CK-style framework of the threats and vulnerabilities of AI-enabled systems.

As a co-founder and former lead of ATLAS, Dr. Liaghati has worked across the international community for years to expand the broader industry and government community capabilities and understanding of AI security. Her work now spans the broader landscape of trustworthy AI acceleration, which includes AI performance, reliability, robustness, security, interpretability, and the need for privacy enhancement.

Dr. Liaghati also chairs the NATO Science and Technology Organization Research Task Group on the AI Assurance and Security, focused on fostering an enduring collaborative community of NATO organizations and industry partners, leveraging the Science and Technology Organization to shape future interoperable capability developments in AI security and assurance. She was named to the 2025 Federal 100, an elite group of individuals from private industry, academia, and government who demonstrate how technology can be leveraged to enhance government services for citizens.