Liana Keesing

Liana is the Policy Manager for Technology Reform at Issue One, where she works on issues of democracy, national security, and tech accountability. Before Issue One, she served as an HAI Policy Fellow on the US Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, where she helped craft legislation on AI policy issues like federal procurement of AI, deepfakes, and agency use of AI. She earned her master's and bachelor's degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, where she focused on systems architecture for emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing. As an engineer, Liana cofounded a startup to help improve the situational awareness of tactical-level soldiers, programmed behaviors for the US Navy’s first autonomous ship “Seahunter,” and used machine learning to optimize cache design in hardware microarchitecture.