Aptima, Inc.
Woburn, Massachusetts United States of America

Svitlana Volkova is Chief of AI in the Office of Science and Technology at Aptima, Inc. She spearheads the company's initiatives to develop trustworthy and human-centric compound AI systems that tackle complex real-world problems for the Department of Defense and other government agencies. Volkova's research focuses on advancing natural language processing and machine learning techniques, with an emphasis on graph neural networks, causal inference, and multimodal frontier models. Her work has pioneered methods for AI-powered analytics to explain complex social systems and behaviors. She received her PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and MS degrees in computer science from Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, Ukraine, and Kansas State University.