Dr. Amy Soller
Dr. Amy Soller serves as Senior Director and Fellow, Applied Artificial Intelligence at Systems Planning & Analysis (SPA). She leads the company’s AI/ML and intelligent automation strategy, advancing the responsible adoption of agentic AI and emerging technologies across defense, intelligence, and civilian agency missions.
Dr. Soller joined SPA following a distinguished career spanning more than three decades of technical and executive leadership experience across government and industry in intelligence, AI, and emerging technologies. Most recently, she led frontier large language model integration efforts for the defense and intelligence enterprise at NVIDIA and xAI.
Prior to her transition to industry, Dr. Soller served as a senior executive in the Department of War, where she directed AI capability development and production, and led the Intelligence Community in the establishment and execution of national-level AI strategy. During her government career, she oversaw large technical organizations, guided multi-billion-dollar missions supporting the Secretary of War and the Director of National Intelligence, and authored national policies related to wireless technology, technical surveillance, and counterintelligence.
Earlier in her career, Dr. Soller served as a Senior AI Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, a science and technology advisor at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and an adjunct professor at George Mason University. She also founded and led two independent AI consulting firms.
Dr. Soller holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Pittsburgh Intelligent Systems Program. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications on AI including several edited journals and books, and has served as the Chair, Steering, or Program Committee member for over 50 national and international conferences on Artificial Intelligence, in addition to serving on numerous AI editorial boards. She currently also serves as a member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group.