Jeffrey Lee is an AI biosecurity research scientist at the RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology where he is a biology subject matter expert. He is a molecular biologist with a background in global health, synthetic biology, and science policy. His work primarily focuses on designing evaluations that assess AI systems to better understand the potential risks from maligned use of highly-capable AI models. Lee was a former Technology and Security Policy Fellow at RAND.
Previously, Lee was a Science Diplomacy Fellow with the National Science Policy Network analyzing international AIxBio governance. Lee was also a Security Working Group Liaison for the Engineering Biology Research Consortium where he led the creation of a biosecurity education resource and contributed to a technical research roadmap for space health. His dissertation centered on mining the gut microbiome for peptides that modulate host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions using virtual chemical screening approaches and functional assays.
Doctor of Philosophy in molecular biology, Princeton University; Master of Arts in molecular biology, Princeton University; Master of Engineering in chemical engineering, Washington University in St Louis; Master of Public Health in global health, Washington University in St Louis; Bachelor of Arts in biology, Washington University in St Louis
