Biography

Doowan Lee is a technologist and national security expert who has worked on publicly funded analytic projects on aggregating, detecting, and analyzing large-data sources on foreign and extremist information operations. He has extensively worked with federal innovation and R&D programs from DARPA, IWTSD (CTTSO), and OSD. He’s also worked at and with several Silicon Valley tech companies, leveraging machine learning and natural language processing models to surface malign content targeting open societies and democracies. He has founded two tech startups scaling open source solutions to detect and defeat foreign origins of information operations and cyber threats. Lee has extensively published in leading journals on how to mitigate and prevent the harms of malign influence exploitng the openness of the information environment. As a member of the Social Media Task Force at Georgetown University, he has engaged with numerous public and government institutions to enable and empower policy discussions aimed at mitigating the ill-effects of extremist and foreign disinformation and cyber threats. Central to this work is a focus on how the extremist and foreign actors exploit the content  ecosystem and emerging technologies to undermine organic political processes and democratic values.