Dan Seth Wallach

Dan S. Wallach is an expert technical resident at RAND. He joined RAND's Center on AI, Security and Technology in 2026 to focus on the security impacts of AI. He was previously a program manager at DARPA (2023–2026), where his portfolio included programs in computer security and cryptography. He was a professor at Rice University (1998–2026), coauthoring over 150 publications. Wallach served on the Elections Assistance Commission’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee as the IEEE representative (2019–2023); he served as a member of the Air Force Science Advisory Board (2011–2015), and was on the board of directors of the USENIX Association (2011–2012). He was also the lead principal investigator of the National Science Foundation–funded A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE, 2005–2011).

Wallach holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in computer science from Princeton University and a B.S. in electrical engineering/computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.