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John Phillips, Chief Scientist, Central Intelligence
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Plenary Panel |
Agency Perspectives
Data Mining for Homeland Security:
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Wednesday, May 24th, 9:40-11:50 am |
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 1:30 - 3:15 pm |
Biosecurity and Public/Animal Health
Terrorism Informatics Speakers
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See Schedule for details on dates and times |
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Chief Scientist -- Central Intelligence Agency In October 2000, Dr. John R. Phillips was appointed as the CIA's Chief Scientist, a position created by the Director for Science and Technology (DS&T) to strengthen and revitalize research and development (R&D) within the CIA and the Intelligence Community (IC). Dr. Phillips also serves as the Director of the Intelligence Community's Intelligence Technology Innovation Center (ITIC), which supports the Associate Director of National Intelligence for Science and Technology (ADNI/S&T) in providing Community leadership and coordination to find corporate solutions for the most pressing scientific and technologic problems facing the IC. Prior to these assignments, Dr. Phillips served as the Director of the DS&T's Investment Program Office. Dr. Phillips' 31-year career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) includes numerous leadership positions in nuclear safeguards, arms control and nonproliferation, chemical weapons detection and verification, environmental monitoring and remediation, nuclear facilities design, and R&D management. His other assignments included a two-year tour in Vienna, Austria, with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and service as a US team leader for negotiations with the Russian Federation for improving nuclear safeguards at their nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facilities. Dr. Phillips also participated on an Iraqi inspection team following the first Gulf War. Since 1986, Dr. Phillips has headed several research and development groups at LANL, including the Safeguards Systems Group, the Materials and Chemical Processing Group, and the Analytical Chemistry Group. These components addressed technical issues at the intersection of executive policy and intelligence support, including treaty verification and mutual assurance in arms control and weapons proliferation matters for all types (nuclear, chemical, and biological) of weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Phillips has extensive experience overseas, including numerous safeguard trips to Russia and participation in IAEA inspections in India, Taiwan, Germany, Russia, and Canada. He also worked with the British as Co-Chair of the US/UK Analytical Chemistry Working Group. He has written and/or contributed to more than 100 technical publications and provided numerous presentations to federal government agencies, private industries, and academia on behalf of the CIA and IC. Dr. Phillips has Doctorate and Master of Science degrees in Analytical Chemistry, and a Master of Business Administration, from the University of New Mexico. His Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics is from Oregon State University. He and his wife, Janet, have two sons.
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In addition, Carlos Castillo-Chavez is the Executive Director of two institutes: the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute or MTBI which focuses on providing research opportunities at the interface of the biological, computational and mathematical sciences from the undergraduate to the graduate and postdoctoral levels and SUMS (Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science) which provides successful university experiences for students from economically disadvantaged groups in order to enhance their prospects for future academic success.
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Gregory F. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine and of Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained a B.S. from M.I.T. in Computer Science in 1977, a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University in 1985, and an M.D. from Stanford in 1986. He is Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research involves the use of Bayesian probability theory and decision theory to address biomedical informatics problems, including the development, implementation and evaluation of Bayesian biosurveillance algorithms. He has over 90 peer-reviewed research publications related to biomedical informatics and associated computer science research issues. He has served on the editorial boards of the Machine Learning journal, Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
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Dr. Brian Jackson is Associate Physical Scientist in RAND's Science and Technology Policy Institute. Brian Jackson holds a Master's Degree in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from the George Washington University 's Elliott School of International Affairs and a Ph.D. in Bio-Inorganic Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Current and recent research activities include an on-going project on personal protective technology for emergency responders for the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory at NIOSH, preparation of a post-9/11 lessons-learned report on protecting emergency workers at terrorist incident sites, work on national R&D priorities for information infrastructure protection, analysis of federal R&D activities relevant to counter-terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, study of biometric technologies, a study on technology acquisition by law enforcement organizations, and an examination of the adoption of new technologies by terrorist groups.
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Don Radlauer became an Associate of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in October 2001. He has published a number of articles and analyses for the Institute, including a much-cited overview of suspicious stock trading prior to the September 11 attacks in the United States. A trained pilot, he also carried out a “pilot’s view” analysis of the September 11 hijackings, examining the flight paths in an attempt to determine at what point the hijackers took control of the doomed airliners, the landmarks that they used to reach their targets, and possibly even their seating arrangements. As Lead Researcher for ICT’s “Al-Aqsa Intifada” Database Project, Mr. Radlauer developed the project’s technological infrastructure, carried out the statistical analysis, and wrote up the project’s findings. The resulting study, “An Engineered Tragedy,” revealed some surprising patterns in the demographics of Palestinian and Israeli casualties since the current conflict began in September 2000. Don Radlauer earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Sociology of Science (specializing in the history of technology) from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Robert G. Ross (Captain, USCG (Retired)): Captain Ross is currently serving as the Deputy Director, Office of Comparative Studies in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. On active service from 1973 to 2003, Captain Ross spent the majority of his career in the Marine Safety and Environmental Protection programs. Duty stations included Baltimore, MD ; Washington, DC ; Guam ; Norfolk, VA ; London, England ; New Orleans, LA ; Miami , FL ; and San Juan, Puerto Rico . In his last operational assignment he was Captain of the Port and Officer in Charge of Marine Inspection in San Juan where he was responsible for commercial shipping safety, port safety and security and marine environmental protection activities in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. While in San Juan, he served as the Federal On-Scene Coordinator for several major incidents including the MORRIS J. BERMAN oil spill, the largest US oil spill since the EXXON VALDEZ and the largest and most successful oil spill response ever managed in its entirety by the Coast Guard. While serving as the Chief, Office of Vessel Traffic Management in CG Headquarters, Captain Ross headed US delegations to three successive negotiating sessions of the International Maritime Organization's Navigation Sub-Committee. His final position in the Coast Guard was as the Chief, Office of Strategic Analysis from which he advised the Commandant and other senior CG leaders on emerging issues, including Homeland Security, which would impact the Coast Guard. In his current position, Captain Ross is conducting or overseeing studies intended to shed light on “next threat” and “threat after next” issues in Homeland Security, the nexus between terrorism and both offensive and defensive technologies and on analytic methodologies, including risk assessment, to support more effective decision-making in the national Homeland Security enterprise. Captain Ross holds a BS in Ocean Engineering from the USCG Academy and an MS in Systems Management from the Florida Institute of Technology. He was also a fellow in the MIT Center for International Studies Seminar XXI program for the 2004-2005 academic year.
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Yael Shahar heads ICT’s database project. She designed the ICT terrorist connections database and the terrorist incidents database, used for tracking links between terrorist individuals, front companies, and organizations. Ms. Shahar specializes in the study of technological trends, as applied to terrorism and intelligence sharing. She lectures on terrorism trends, non-conventional terrorism, and threat assessment at the International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, as well as security conferences and seminars worldwide. Ms. Shahar’s primarily responsibility is conducting open-source datamining in support of ICT research projects, as well as venue-specific threat assessments for ICT’s commercial clients. Her background is in physics, database design, and security and installation protection. She serves as a reservist in the IDF hostage rescue unit, and as a sniper in Israel’s Border Guard “Matmid” units.
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Joshua Sinai is a program manager for terrorism studies at Logos Technologies. Formerly, he served as a senior policy analyst in the Intelligence Division at ANSER. Prior to his work at ANSER, he was a senior analyst at SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) and at the Library of Congress’s Federal Research Division. He is a specialist on international strategic and security issues; his professional work focuses on assessing terrorism in all its dimensions— the origins of terrorism, terrorist group profiles, developing indications and warning methodologies to forecast terrorist warfare (particularly the paths, links, and processes involved in the transition by terrorist groups from conventional to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cyber-warfare) and new approaches for governments to resolve terrorist insurgencies. Among his publications is the handbook, coauthored with his colleague at ANSER, Lt. Colonel Jeffrey Adams (U.S. Army, retired), Protecting Schools and Universities from Terrorism: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers, published by the American Society for Industrial Security. Joshua Sinai obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Political Science Department at Columbia University.
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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is a full Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Cyber Security Research Center at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Prior to joining UTD, she was a program director for three years at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA on IPA from the MITRE Corporation and was the founder of the Data and Applications Security program at NSF. Dr. Thuraisingham has worked for the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA since January 1989 where she was held various positions including department head in Data and Information Management and Chief Scientist in Data Management. She has also worked for the Computer Industry in Mpls, MN for over five years and has served as an adjunct professor of computer science and member of the graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota and later taught at Boston University.
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Dr.
John R. Phillips 
Dr.
Laura Dugan is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland
, College Park . She is an active member of the National Consortium
on Violence Research, the Maryland Population Research Center
, and the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response
to Terrorism. In her recent work, she examines the root causes
of and policy responses to terrorism. She also examines the consequences
of criminal victimization and the efficacy of victimization prevention
policy and practice. In her research, she designs methodological
strategies to overcome data limitations inherent in the social
sciences. 
James O. Ellis III is a terrorism and weapons of mass destruction specialist. He serves as MIPT's Research and Program Coordinator and manages their Terrorism Knowledge Base and analyzes terrorism and counterterrorism policy. Prior to joining MIPT, Mr. Ellis worked in the Response Division of the Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency Management where he revised the State Emergency Operations Plan to address WMD events. A former Fulbright Scholar, Mr. Ellis received his Master of Letters in International Security Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his bachelor's degrees in Linguistics and International Relations from the University of Oklahoma.
Daniel Ford is a Research Staff Member in the Healthcare Information Infrastructure group in the Department of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He joined IBM Research in 1992 and has since been a researcher in a number of different areas including high availability tertiary storage systems, web search, life science applications and mostly recently the development of novel software tools for disease modeling and epidemiology. Dr. Ford has extensive publications and holds 19 US Patents. He received his Ph.D from the University of Waterloo, his M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and his B.Sc. (Hons.) from Simon Fraser University, all in Computer Science. He resides in New York with his wife and three children. 
Dr. Jiawei Han is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at
Major
General Annette Sobel is the director of Intelligence, National Guard Bureau and a standing
member of the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advisory Board. She
is also a member the Senior Officer Advisory Panel for the Joint
Military Intelligence College. Her work has emphasized Weapons
of Mass Destruction information analysis, and technology transition
to field operational environments and advanced tactical aircraft.
Prior to her current assignments, she served as National Guard
Assistant for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Civil Support to
the Chief, National Guard Bureau, after entering the National
Guard as state air surgeon, Headquarters New Mexico Air National
Guard. General Sobel entered the United States Army in July 1986
as a second lieutenant and was assigned as the director of Undergraduate
Medical Education in the Department of Family Medicine, Womack
Army Community Hospital, Ft Bragg, North Carolina . She later
served as commander, United States Army Medical Holding Company.
She served as the officer-in-charge of the 44th Medical Brigade
Field Hospital during Operation Just Cause, Panama. She subsequently
joined the Air National Guard in 1991, where she was assigned
as the chief, Aerospace Medicine, 178th Medical Squadron, Ohio
Air National Guard, Ohio . She has also commanded the 178th Medical
Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard and the 150th Medical Squadron,
New Mexico Air National Guard, New Mexico . 
Marty Vanier, DVM |
"Mining Motion Anomaly in Massive Moving Objects" By Dr. Han, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With the advances in sensory and mobile computing technology, enormous amounts of data about moving objects are being collected. With such data, it becomes possible to automatically identify suspicious behavior in object movements. Anomaly detection in massive moving objects has many important applications, especially in surveillance, law enforcement, and homeland security. Due to the sheer volume of spatiotemporal and non-spatial data (such as weather and object type) associated with moving objects, it is challenging to develop a method that can efficiently and effectively detect anomalies of object movements in complex scenarios. The problem is further complicated by the fact that anomalies may occur at various levels of abstraction and be associated with different time and location
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"Epidemiological Approaches and its Applications to Public Security" By Carlos Castillo-Chavez a Regents and a Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor at Arizona State University. A "contagion/contact" perspective is used to illustrate some of the challenges posed to mathematics from efforts to anticipate, prevent and control acts of terror. Examples are provided from various contexts.
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"Bayesian Biosurveillance" By Gregory F. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D. an Associate Professor of Medicine and of Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh.
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"The Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM)" By Dan Ford, IBM Almaden Research Center.
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“How Terrorists Learn” by Dr. Brian Jackson, Associate Physical Scientist, RAND, Science and Technology Policy Institute. Continuing conflicts between violent groups and states generate an ever-present demand for higher-quality and more timely information to support operations to combat terrorism. Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist and insurgent groups adapt over time into more-effective organizations and increasingly dangerous threats. Because learning is the link between what a group wants to do and its ability to gather the needed information and resources to actually do it, a better understanding of the group learning process could contribute to the design of more-effective measures for combating terrorism. This presentation will focus on collecting and analyzing the available information on terrorist groups' learning behavior, combining input from the organizational learning literature, published literature on terrorist and insurgent groups, and insights drawn from case studies and workshop discussions. It describes a model of learning as a four-part process, comprising acquiring, interpreting, distributing, and storing information and knowledge. This analytical framework, by providing a fuller picture of how terrorist groups try to adapt and evolve over time, may help in understanding the behavior of individual groups and the level of threat they pose; in developing effective counterstrategies to detect and thwart their efforts; and in appropriately allocating resources to counter potential and proven adversaries. ( RAND reports on organizational learning are available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG331/ ) “The Role of Information Superiority in the Global War on Terrorism” by Major General Annette Sobel, USAF, National Guard Bureau, Director of Intelligence Organizational agility, thoughtful purpose in information/intelligence-sharing and collaboration, speed of action and decision-making are critical elements to winning the War on Terrorism. These elements define the guidance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, United States Marine Corps. The role of each element should be considered in the knowledge discovery process and a focused, yet adaptive, approach should be adopted in the effort toward terrorist/extremist early cueing, identification, and warning. This presentation will focus on the different roles in the war on terrorism. |
| "Animal Health and Biosecurity," by Marty Vanier, DVM, Associate Director, National Agricultural Biosecurity Center, Kansas State University
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