Byron Cohen is an AI and biosecurity research resident at RAND. Previously, he served as a biosecurity advisor at DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office, where he advised on biosurveillance, attribution, epidemiological modeling, and AI:bio uplift risk. Before that, he served as advisor for Interagency R&D Oversight at the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR). An epidemiologist by training, he holds a Ph.D. in population health sciences from Harvard University, and has conducted peer-reviewed epidemiological modeling research on biosafety and global health security.
Education
Ph.D. in population health sciences, Harvard University; M.P.H. in public health, University College Dublin; B.A. in philosophy, politics, & economics (ppe), Claremont McKenna College