Dr. Nidhi Jha is a Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, supporting NASA's Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI). Her research focuses on geospatial artificial intelligence, remote sensing, Earth observation, and AI-driven scientific discovery. She is the SME lead for the Accelerated Knowledge Discovery (AKD) project initiative, where she develops collaborative methodologies for designing trustworthy AI agents for science. Her work spans agentic AI, Earth science data discovery and the integration of large language models into scientific workflows. She is actively involved in advancing open, community-driven frameworks for AI agents in Earth science and collaborates with NASA and the broader research community to accelerate scientific discovery through trustworthy and reproducible AI.