The next Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice virtual meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at Noon EST.
During this meeting, we will have a guest speaker, Mr. Doowan Lee, who will speak on "Sensor Fusion and Integrated Deterrence." He is a technologist and national security expert who has worked on publicly funded data analytic projects on aggregating, detecting, and analyzing large-data sources on foreign and extremist information operations. As a member of the Social Media Task Force at Georgetown University and a board advisor to the Georgetown National Security Law Center, he has engaged with numerous public and government institutions to enable and empower policy discussions aimed at mitigating the ill-effects of disinformation and cyber threats.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to critical lessons on how information operations intersect with integrated deterrence. Most notably, it took most analysts by surprise how Ukraine was competing so much more effectively in the information environment compared to 2014. However, there were much concerted efforts to enhance Ukraine’s resilience in the sinformation environment leading to the Russian invasion. Furthermore, Ukraine offers invaluable insights about how information operations and resistance efforts intersect with national and social resilience and resistance against revisionism. What we have learned from Ukraine has far-reaching implications on CPD (counter propaganda and disinformation) in general and how the US can support Taiwan in particular. Key to tackling this problem is how we fuse sensor nodes to provide intelligence fidelity on how to enable and empower organic resistance activities.
Doowan Lee is a technologist and national security expert who has worked on publicly funded data analytic projects on aggregating, detecting, and analyzing large-data sources on foreign and extremist information operations. He has extensively worked with federal innovation and R&D programs from DARPA, IWTSD (CTTSO), and OSD. He’s also worked at and with several Silicon Valley tech companies, leveraging machine learning and natural language processing models to detect and defeat foreign origins of information operations and cyber threats. He has founded two tech startups scaling open source solutions to detect and defeat foreign origins of malign influence. Lee has extensively published in leading journals and magazines on how to mitigate and prevent the harms of malign influence exploiting the openness of the information environment. As a member of the Social Media Task Force at Georgetown University and a board advisor to the Georgetown National Security Law Center, he has engaged with numerous public and government institutions to enable and empower policy discussions aimed at mitigating the ill-effects of disinformation and cyber threats. Central to this work is a focus on how the extremist and foreign actors exploit the content ecosystem and emerging technologies to undermine organic political processes and democratic values.
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