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Colin Shea-Blymyer

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Colin Shea-Blymyer is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the CyberAI Project. He is a candidate for a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Oregon State University’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, where he is a member of the Outstanding Scholars Program. His research has spanned safe reinforcement learning, formal methods, adversarial machine learning, and AI ethics. Previously, he was a graduate researcher with MITRE, where he helped establish the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) program on adversarial machine learning research at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE). He holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Oregon State University, where he was an Outstanding Scholar Fellow.

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