
President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Dimitri Kusnezov, a scientist and Energy Department official helping with international partnerships on artificial intelligence at the department, to head the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. Kathryn Coulter Mitchell is the current acting under secretary for S&T at DHS. Kusnezov, a theoretical scientist, currently works in the DoE Office of Science on creating international partnerships in AI. He previously was the deputy under secretary for artificial intelligence…