Dr. Aaron F. Brantly

Lab Director

Aaron Brantly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, Director of the Tech4Humanity Lab, affiliated faculty at the Hume Center for National Security and Technology, affiliated faculty at the Center for Peace and Violence Prevention, and a member of the Information Trust and Society Initiative.

Dr. Brantly teaches courses in international relations, comparative politics, integrated security, cybersecurity. His research focuses on national security policy issues in cyberspace including big data, terrorism, intelligence, decision-making and human rights. He is the author or editor of four books The Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-making, US National Cybersecurity: International Politics, Concepts and Organization, Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in Cyberspace, and The Cyber Deterrence Problem and a number of peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Nataliya Brantly

Deputy Director for Health Technologies

Nataliya Brantly is an Assistant Professor of global health security and health technology policy in the Government and International Affairs (GIA) Program within the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Virginia Tech. She received her PhD in the Science and Technology Studies (STS) program and her Master of Public Health degree from Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on global health and biomedical security. Dr. Brantly studies complex issues pertaining to electronic health governance, consumer biomedical technology security and the impact of biomedical technologies on the human condition. She is leading several exploratory studies assessing the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedical technologies to propose ways in which open-source AI can be regulated to enhance cybersecurity. Additionally, she is assessing the development and application of norms, principles and procedures that shape the use of biomedical technologies for global health security. Dr. Brantly teaches courses in electronic governance and contemporary complex security systems.