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Co-Director, Center for Scalable Computing and Analysis
Osonde Osoba (pronounced “oh-shOwn-day aw-shAw-bah”) is an information scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has a background in the design and optimization of machine learning algorithms. He has applied his machine learning expertise to diverse…
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Senior Information Scientist
John Davis is a senior information scientist at RAND where he studies the impact of technology on society via projects involving cybersecurity, big data and telecommunications. He has led research for the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Microsoft,…
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Senior Economist
Steven W. Popper is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. As associate director of the RAND Science and Technology Policy Institute (1996–2001), Popper provided research and analytic support to the White House Office of Science and…
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Senior Physical Scientist
Richard Silberglitt is a senior physical scientist at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has worked in academia, government, and private industry for over 40 years, performing, evaluating, and managing research in advanced technology areas.
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Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist
Bill Marcellino is a social and behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He was trained as a sociolinguist and corpus linguist. He develops analytic toolsets, including RAND-Lex, RAND's proprietary text analytics suite. Marcellino teaches…
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Senior Operations Researcher
John F. Raffensperger is a senior operations researcher at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
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Senior Technical Analyst
Jair Aguirre is a senior technical analyst at RAND and a professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research is focused on cyberwarfare, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. He often couples quantitative approaches such as machine learning with cutting-edge information…
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Senior Physical Scientist
Sarah Nowak is a senior physical scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Nowak specializes in mathematical modeling. One of her primary areas of research involves integrating agent-based modeling approaches with national surveys to examine how…
