Sameer Bhalotra

Lead Staff Member
Cybersecurity, US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Sameer Bhalotra joined the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as a bipartisan professional staff member at the start of the 110th Congress in 2007. He covers cybersecurity and other technology issues for the Committee. Prior to this role, Dr. Bhalotra worked to develop new cross-community technology programs as a founding member of the Science and Technology staff within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Dr. Bhalotra began his government career in Washington, DC as an engineer at the Defense Intelligence Agency and then joined the Central Intelligence Agency, working on Directorate of Science & Technology projects and subsequently supporting the CIA Director. Dr. Bhalotra received an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University and a doctorate in Applied Physics from Stanford University, specializing in next generation optical sensing systems.