A Machine Learning Based Model of Boko Haram
暫譯: 基於機器學習的博科哈拉模型

V.S. Subrahmanian is the Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society and Director of the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society at Dartmouth. He previously served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland from 1989-2017 where he created and headed both the Lab for Computational Cultural Dynamics and the Center for Digital International Government. He also served for 6+ years as Director of the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Prof. Subrahmanian is an expert on big data analytics including methods to analyze text/geospatial/relational/social network data, learn behavioral models from the data, forecast actions, and influence behaviors with applications to cybersecurity and counter-terrorism. He has written five books, edited ten, and published over 300 refereed articles. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and received numerous other honors and awards. His work has been featured in numerous outlets such as the Baltimore Sun, the Economist, Science, Nature, the Washington Post, American Public Media. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including Science, the Board of Directors of SentiMetrix, Inc., and on the Research Advisory Board of Tata Consultancy Services. He previously served on t he Board of Directors of the Development Gateway Foundation (set up by the World Bank), DARPA's Executive Advisory Council on Advanced Logistics and as an ad-hoc member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board.

Chiara Pulice worked on this project during her stint as a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She received her PhD degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2015. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science of the University of British Columbia (2013-2014), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (2016-2017). Her research interests include data integration, inconsistent databases, data mining, machine learning and social network analysis.

James F. Brown is an alumnus of Dartmouth's Computer Science Department. He graduated with a master's in computer science in 2020. In 2018, he got his bachelor's in computer science from Southern Connecticut State University. At Dartmouth, James worked under V.S. Subrahmanian to develop machine learning models that can predict acts of terror. After graduating from Dartmouth, James went on to work in the private sector in New York City.

Jacob Bonen-Clark is currently pursuing a Master of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Jacob received undergraduate degrees in Economics and Peace, War, and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked in finance and accounting at a midstream oil and natural gas company in Denver, Colorado from 2017-2020. Jacob will focus his studies at the Kennedy School on electoral politics and climate change.

V.S. Subrahmanian 是達特茅斯學院的網路安全、科技與社會的傑出教授，並擔任安全、科技與社會研究所的所長。他曾於1989年至2017年擔任馬里蘭大學的計算機科學教授，創建並領導計算文化動態實驗室及數位國際政府中心。他還曾擔任馬里蘭大學高級計算機研究所的所長超過六年。Subrahmanian教授是大數據分析的專家，專注於分析文本、地理空間、關聯和社交網絡數據的方法，從數據中學習行為模型，預測行為並影響行為，並應用於網路安全和反恐領域。他撰寫了五本書籍，編輯了十本書，並發表了超過300篇經過審核的文章。他是美國科學促進會和人工智慧促進協會的會士，並獲得了許多其他榮譽和獎項。他的研究成果曾在《巴爾的摩太陽報》、《經濟學人》、《科學》、《自然》、《華盛頓郵報》和美國公共媒體等多個媒體上報導。他擔任多本期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括Science，並在SentiMetrix, Inc.的董事會及塔塔顧問服務公司的研究諮詢委員會任職。他曾擔任發展網關基金會（由世界銀行設立）的董事會成員、DARPA高級物流執行諮詢委員會成員，以及美國空軍科學諮詢委員會的臨時成員。

Chiara Pulice 在新罕布什爾州漢諾瓦的達特茅斯學院擔任博士後研究員期間參與了這個項目。她於2015年在意大利卡拉布里亞大學獲得計算機與系統工程的博士學位。她曾於2013年至2014年擔任不列顛哥倫比亞大學計算機科學系的訪問學者，並於2016年至2017年在馬里蘭大學高級計算機研究所擔任博士後研究員。她的研究興趣包括數據整合、不一致的數據庫、數據挖掘、機器學習和社交網絡分析。

James F. Brown 是達特茅斯計算機科學系的校友。他於2020年獲得計算機科學碩士學位。在2018年，他從南康乃狄克州立大學獲得計算機科學學士學位。在達特茅斯，James 在 V.S. Subrahmanian 教授的指導下開發可以預測恐怖行為的機器學習模型。從達特茅斯畢業後，James 進入紐約市的私營部門工作。

Jacob Bonen-Clark 目前在哈佛大學甘迺迪政府學院攻讀公共政策碩士學位。Jacob 在北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校獲得經濟學及和平、戰爭與防衛的本科學位。他曾於2017年至2020年在科羅拉多州丹佛的一家中游石油和天然氣公司從事財務和會計工作。Jacob 將在甘迺迪學院專注於選舉政治和氣候變遷的研究。