Maia Hamin is currently serving an assignment under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act at the US AI Safety Institute within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is on leave from the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, where she held the position of Associate Director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Tech Programs.

Hamin works on the intersection of cybersecurity and technology policy, including projects on the cybersecurity implications of artificial intelligence, open-source software, cloud computing, and regulatory systems like software liability.

Prior to joining the Council, Hamin was a TechCongress Congressional Innovation Fellow serving in the office of Senator Ron Wyden, where she worked on legislation and oversight projects on topics in cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence and internet governance. Previously, she was a software engineer on Palantir’s Privacy and Civil Liberties team, building full-stack software products to implement privacy and data security protections for private and public sector clients.  

Hamin holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Princeton University, where she did undergraduate research in cognitive science and machine learning and ran a humor magazine of ill repute.