Anita Rao is a researcher at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) within NIST and the lead author of NIST AI 800-4: Challenges to the Monitoring of Deployed AI Systems (March 2026). Her ORCID is 0009-0009-6459-6425.
NIST AI 800-4 authorship
NIST AI 800-4 credits eight authors, whose central topic is post-deployment monitoring of AI systems. Four are identified with CAISI, one with NIST's Information Technology Laboratory, and four are footnoted as former NIST employees.
| Author | Affiliation | ORCID |
|---|---|---|
| Anita Rao | CAISI | 0009-0009-6459-6425 |
| Drew Keller | CAISI | 0009-0000-1715-9219 |
| Neha Kalra | Former NIST employee | 0009-0004-3826-9248 |
| Ryan Steed | CAISI | 0000-0002-2345-2670 |
| Kweku Kwegyir-Aggrey | Former NIST employee | 0000-0002-6971-7355 |
| Kevin Klyman | Former NIST employee | 0009-0003-2130-3529 |
| Diane Staheli | Former NIST employee (Information Technology Laboratory) | 0009-0006-4242-5201 |
| Stevie Bergman | CAISI | 0000-0002-4331-135 |
Four of the eight listed authors — Kalra, Kwegyir-Aggrey, Klyman, and Staheli — are footnoted as former NIST employees, indicating that half had departed the agency by the time the report was published. This pattern is consistent with broader 2025-2026 reporting on personnel turnover at federal AI capacity centers.
Relationships
- member-of: NIST CAISI (Center for AI Standards and Innovation) (the Center for AI Standards and Innovation)
- authored: NIST AI 800-4: Challenges to the Monitoring of Deployed AI Systems
- related: Post-Deployment AI System Monitoring (the report's central topic)