Nancy Fulda is the director of BYU's DRAGN Lab, a research group that studies machine learning, knowledge representation, and societal impacts of generative AI. Working alongside student researchers, she seeks to make AI systems more human-centric and data efficient, with downstream applications including AI-augmented education, low-power machine learning, and the application of neural programming interfaces toward knowledge grounding and explainable AI.

Dr. Fulda received her PhD from Brigham Young University in 2019, and has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers on machine learning, knowledge representation, neuromorphic computing, and conversational AI. She is a founding member of the Consortium for Evaluating Faith and Ethics in AI, an Institutional Review Board member and ACME Advisory Board Member at Brigham Young University, and a member of the 2025 Emerging Leaders in Data Summit. In 2024 she was named one of Utah's top 100 AI professionals.

Dr. Fulda is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the mother of six children, and an irrepressible optimist. In addition to her academic work, she adores science fiction and has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. She has written on request for David Brin, TOR Books, and MIT’s Technology Review, and is a recipient of the Asimov's Readers' Choice Award and the Jim Baen Memorial Award, which was created to honor the contributions of science fiction authors toward real science.