Elika Somani

Elika Somani is a fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) policy.

Before CNAS, Somani was an AI Policy Fellow at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where she worked on AI research and development programs. Previously, she worked at RAND on AI governance, biosecurity, and emerging technology policy, and at the National Institutes of Health, where she focused on biosecurity policy and bioethics.

Somani holds a master's degree in national security policy from the RAND School of Public Policy.