Jeff ALSTOTT

Jeff Alstott is founding director of RAND's center for Technology and Security Policy (TASP), which performs policy R&D on technology competition and risks. Jeff is also also a senior information scientist and professor of policy analysis at RAND, and an expert at the National Science Foundation, where he runs a program on technology forecasting and improving R&D investment returns. His government service includes time at the White House as Director for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council and Assistant Director for Technology Competition and Risks at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He previously worked in the Intelligence Community as a program manager at IARPA, with an R&D portfolio that included artificial intelligence, analytic methods, biosecurity, and science and technology forecasting; he helped lead intelligence working groups on AI intelligence collection and analysis, and was part of an award-winning team on technology counterintelligence. He has worked in academia for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Singapore University of Technology and Design, the World Bank, and the University of Chicago. Alstott's published research covers animal behavior, computational neuroscience, complex networks, design science, statistical methods, and science and technology forecasting. He obtained his doctorate studying complex networks at the University of Cambridge, and his MBA and bachelor's degrees from Indiana University.