Haiman Wong, Senior Research Associate, is a Doctoral Candidate at Purdue University’s Doctor of Technology (DTECH) program. Her research interests center on the intersection of internet governance, rhetoric, natural language processing, technology innovation and leadership, political science, and law. She is also a double Eagle alumna of American University, where she earned a B.A. in Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government from the School of Public Affairs (SPA) and an M.S. in Data Science with a concentration in Cybersecurity from the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Throughout her time at American University, Haiman was also selected to be a member of the Politics, Policy, and Law Three-Year Scholars cohort, the School of Public Affairs (SPA) Leadership program, and the AU sprint team in the U.S. Census Bureau’s The Opportunity Project. Haiman is passionate about creating opportunities to bridge academia with practice. Her experience spans across the financial, education, and technology industries where she worked in data science, global cybersecurity risk and threat intelligence management, cybersecurity incident response, and digital transformation.

Theodore “Andrew” Ochieng, Senior Research Associate, is a graduate of the Analytics Master’s Program at the Kogod School of Business at American University. He has several years of experience helping organizations leverage data to solve problems by increasing data utility through supporting various stages of the analytics and modeling pipeline such as improving ETL pipelines, data cleaning, feature engineering, and developing and deploying models. His work spans across the cybersecurity, software-as-a-service (SaaS), education, and policy research sectors where he worked in data science, market and competitive intelligence, and research and strategy analysis.