Maegen Nix

Maegen Nix is director of the Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation's Information Sciences & Analytics Division. 

She’s a veteran and a former intelligence officer with 25 years of experience in the national security community and academia. 

She has developed curriculum, taught, and lectured at numerous defense and civilian institutions, including the:

• United States Naval Academy.
• Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy.
• United States Army Special Warfare Center and School.
• Defense Science Board.
• Aspen Institute.

Nix is an expert in asymmetric and gray zone operations. At her previous position at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, she led numerous program portfolios related to irregular warfare and insurgencies, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure security, national communications, autonomous systems, and intelligence. 

She established foundational research and development initiatives at Johns Hopkins regarding information operations, countering foreign influence, and supply chain analytics. She has also led interagency wargames for regional and functional combatant commands and served as chief of staff for the lab’s 1200-person organization focused on asymmetric operations.

Nix earned a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in political science from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. in political science from the U.S. Naval Academy.