Kamie Roberts (Fed)

Kamie Roberts is the AI Executive Order Program Manager for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), managing the day-to-day activities of the tasks assigned to NIST under President Biden’s Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Executive Order (EO 14100). Kamie also serves as the Acting Deputy Director of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), helping to oversee the research program and operations of the lab which has an annual budget of approximately $160 million. Prior to taking on these roles, Kamie was on a six-year detail to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. The NITRD Program is the Nation’s primary source of federally funded research and development in advanced information technologies. NITRD coordinates and helps set priorities for over $10B in Federal R&D investments that identify, develop, and transition to practical use the advanced networking and IT capabilities needed by the Federal Government and the Nation. Previously at NIST, Kamie served as the Associate Director of Federal and Industrial Relations and Chief of Staff for the NIST ITL. Kamie has served her entire career at NIST covering a broad range of research from networking to big data to health IT, and more. Kamie earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in Computer Science from George Washington University.