Aaron Mannes Email & Phone Number

Rockville, MD, US

Reston, VA, US

At Metaphase, I work to make the world safer by supporting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) International Affairs Office. This office engages global partners worldwide to secure critical infrastructure.

College Park, MD, US

Evanston, IL, US

At the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs I'm collaborating with Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian to build terrorism early warning system using computational models.- train and oversee multiple teams of undergraduate researchers collecting data on major terrorist groups worldwide (including Boko Haram and Lashkar-e-Taiba) in order to train predictive models.

Alexandria, VA, US

Suffolk, VA, US

First as a AAAS Fellow and then as a contractor, I have been supporting Data Analytics Technology Center (DA-TC) at Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate as the Senior Policy Advisor. DA-TC researches data analytics to support the Homeland Security Enterprise. This work ranges from high-end research to nuts and bolts problem solving to protect.

DC, Washington, US

College Park, MD, US

• LCCD applied cutting edge computational tools to terrorism and other international security problems. I served as the in-house expert on international affairs, terrorism, and policy. In my time at LCCD I:
• Organized and oversaw the data collection for big data projects using game theory, social network analysis, and data mining
• Developed frameworks to transform articles and reports into quantitative data
• Trained and oversaw teams of researchers collecting data
• Analyzed results, applying subject matter expertise to develop policy relevant findings
• Collaborated to develop first-ever big data models of terrorist group behavior (focus on Middle East and South Asia), resulting in testable and 85% accurate predictions

College Park, MD, US

• MINDLAB conducted research on Semantic Web technologies that would facilitate analysis and information sharing. There was tremendous interest in applying these capabilities to intelligence and counter-terrorism. My.
• Developed world’s first terrorism ontology (Semantic web framework for organizing information) despite no previous computer science experience
• Directed team of five computer scientists/researchers building experimental Semantic Web research site for analyzing terrorism and a successful entry into 2006 Semantic Web Challenge (a working Semantic Web site.
• Identified user needs and set priorities for programmers
• Established frameworks for data collection and oversaw process to ensure necessary quantity of data was gathered, while assuring data quality
• Presented research to intelligence community and in a half-dozen academic papers, book chapters, and workshop presentations

College Park, MD, US

• My PhD dissertation was on the national security role of the vice president – interesting in its own right, it is also a unique lens to better understand national security decision-making. In the course of my.
• Used process tracing to identify sources of vice presidential influence
• Advanced current research by examining specific instances of vice presidential influence
• Interviewed Vice President Walter Mondale and over 30 White House staffers
• Carried out archival research at presidential libraries and the Minnesota Historical Society
• Published four popular and scholarly articles and papers on the vice presidency

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Public Policy Analysis

Ma, Liberal Arts

Bssp, Communications