Bio

I apply information security practices to defend against disinformation and other online harms, including extremism. I've run large incident responses, set up response systems for election- and health-based cognitive security around the world, advise companies on disinformation risk management, and have built a body of research and tools for running and operating cognitive security operations centres, including the DISARM (formerly AMITT) frameworks for rapidly sharing disinformation data. I teach cybersecurity and cognitive security at the University of Maryland, consult through Threet.consulting, am a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and am Chief Scientist at the Disarm Foundation. I have Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence, and Pattern Analysis and Neural Networks. My technical background includes information fusion, crowdsourcing, unmanned systems (including human-machine teaming), data governance, nationstate development, and crisis response.