Dr. William (Chris) Headley (Ph.D. 2015, ECE/Virginia Tech) is the Interim Director for the Spectrum Dominance Division at the Virginia Tech National Security Institute where he has served as a principal or co-principal investigator on a multitude of government and commercial projects totaling over $25M. Within the division, he primarily oversees the Radio Frequency ML and RF Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality portfolios. Through his courtesy appointment within Virginia Tech’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, he also serves as a mentor and advisor to both undergraduate and graduate student researchers, providing them with hands-on research opportunities through these projects as well as guiding them towards their degree requirements. Beyond those stated, his research areas of interest include synthetic dataset generation, digital signal processing, RF spectrum sensing, and adversarial AI/ML.