Erman Ayday
Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Data Sciences, Case School of Engineering
Privacy enhancing technologies, data security and applied cryptographyy
- Privacy enhancing technologies (including online social networks and genomic privacy).
- Data security and applied cryptography.
- Big data analytics and statistical inference from big data.
- Iterative algorithms for trust and reputation management.
- Trust and reputation management for ad-hoc networks and online services.
- Information retrieval and recommender systems.
- Data Privacy, authentication and availability for wireless sensor networks.
- Game theory for wireless networks.
- Cyber security for Smart Grid, Delay tolerant, and M2M networks.
P.M. “Pooch” Picucci
P.M. “Pooch” Picucci is a Research Staff Member for the Joint Advanced Warfighting Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Dr. Picucci is a political scientist by training having received a PhD from the University of Kansas and a Masters in National Security Studies from California State University: San Bernardino. He served as the Chair for IDA’s Innovation and Experimentation working group and currently serves as the lead principle investigator for IDA’s support to DARPA on Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of AI/ML enhanced and autonomous capabilities. His primary work for IDA has focused on the incorporation of human, social, cultural and behavioral factors into the military’s operations and modeling & simulation (M&S) communities. Secondary portfolio elements range across a diverse array of topics including: COIN doctrine, biometrics, non-lethal weapon systems, service personnel diversity management, wargaming, warning intelligence, and population influence operations. He is the author of articles on the challenges of integrating social science methods and, more broadly, socio-cultural knowledge and data into DOD modeling efforts; one of which was nominated for the 2013 Larry D. Welch Award. He has twice been nominated for the InterService / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Best Tutorial award.
Mitt Regan, Jr.
Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Coordinator of the Program on Law, Ethics, and International Security at Georgetown Law Center, and is a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy. He also is a member of an expert group advising the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on legal and ethical dimensions of the military use of AI; an advisor to the NATO Innovation Fund on development and application of Principles of Responsible Use for technology that incorporates AI capabilities; and a participant in two grant-funded projects on human-machine interaction in military applications of AI.
Professor Regan works in the fields of the law and ethics of military applications of artificial intelligence, international law on the use of force, international human rights law, international criminal law, and military ethics. He is the author most recently of Drone Strike: Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), and co-editor of Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict: The Challenge to Liberal Democracies (Oxford University Press 2024); Between Crime and War: Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict (Oxford University Press 2023); and National Security Intelligence and Ethics (Routledge 2022).
