Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist; Professor of Text Analytics, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Bill Marcellino is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and Johns Hopkins University. He was trained as a sociolinguist and corpus linguist, and at RAND he develops AI applications, including RAND-Lex, RAND's proprietary text analytics suite. Marcellino teaches text analytics and natural language processing (NLP), as well as qualitative research methods. His research focuses on information as a warfighting function, AI technology application and acquisition for DoD, military resilience, and misinformation/disinformation and conspiracy theories over social media. He also helps lead RAND's AI development in speciality LLMs and LLM-enabled applications. He has also served as a U.S. Marine tank officer and enlisted rifleman. Marcellino received his Ph.D. in rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ph.D. in rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University
