Nicolai Cronin

Nicolai A. Cronin is an M.Phil student at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. Prior to joining RAND, he graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in industrial engineering.

While at Purdue, Cronin served as the elected Sales Director of Scope Consulting—a professional services organization run by Purdue students which provides advisory, analysis, and product development to corporate clients. Additionally, Cronin collaborated with the Center for Internet Security to develop cyber-threat and defense models. Among such models, Cronin developed a probability model that allows cybersecurity risk to be consistently evaluated using qualitative and quantitative factors, which is currently in patent process.

Cronin’s policy interests include national security, information warfare, wargaming, consumer preference modeling, and sociocultural behavior modeling. He is proficient in R Studio, Power Bi, and Analytica. He is conversational in Ukrainian.