About the IAPP

Dr. Amanda Muller is a Northrop Grumman Fellow who currently serves as the Chief, Responsible Technology for Northrop Grumman. In this role, she leads the development and delivery of responsible Artificial Intelligence processes and policy  across the company. 

Prior to her current role, Dr. Muller was the Responsible Artificial Intelligence lead for the Northrop Grumman AI Campaign. Before that, she worked for Northrop Grumman Space Systems in Redondo Beach, California, as a Systems Engineer. She led the User Experience teams for several restricted space programs, conducting user research in operational environments around the world.  Previously, Dr. Muller served as a Systems Engineer on State Health and Human Services programs, as a Human Factors Engineer in Aurora, Colorado, and as the Human-Systems Integration lead for airborne platforms in Melbourne, Florida. In addition to her program roles, Dr. Muller has been a mentor in the Mentoring the Technical Professional program for over seven years.

Dr. Muller’s publications include a book chapter in Emerging Trends in Systems Engineering Leadership: Practical Research from Women Leaders, and peer-reviewed articles in Information Fusion, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, and the Annals of Biomedial Engineering.  

Dr. Muller earned her Ph.D. in Engineering from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. She also holds a graduate certificate in Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation from Stanford University. Dr. Muller is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE),  Professional Scrum Master (Scrum.org), and is certified in Professional Scrum with User Experience (Scrum.org).