Elie Alhajjar, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at the RAND Corporation, leading projects at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and government. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor at the United States Military Academy and a Senior Research Scientist at the Army Cyber Institute in West Point, New York. Previously, Alhajjar served as a Research Scientist in the Computing and Communications Theory Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from George Mason University.
As a 2024 #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellow, Alhajjar will work to establish a framework for the spread of social-cyber campaigns as an emerging technology with the end goal of setting potential mitigation strategies. The goal of his research is to understand the lifecycle of a campaign from inception, spread, to final status in order to devise defensive, offensive, and preemptive plans and identify adequate intervention strategies.