Joe Uchill is a Ph.D. student at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. He joined RAND after nearly a decade as a cybersecurity reporter for outlets including Axios, The Hill, and Motherboard. Prior to that, he had a brief stint in an applied math research group, where he wrote several papers on statistical image analysis. Uchill has particular interest in cybersecurity policy, cybercriminal economies and election security, with a great deal of experience covering ransomware policy, homeland security, information operations, cyber insurance, and cyber espionage. He holds an M.Phil in policy analysis from the RAND School of Public Policy, an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University, and a B.A. in English from Boston College.
M.Phil. in policy analysis, RAND School of Public Policy; M.S. in journalism, Northwestern University; B.A. in English, Boston College
