Byron Cohen

Byron Cohen is an AI and Biosecurity Research Resident at RAND, where he works on AI-biosecurity risk assessment and policy research. Previously, he served as a biosecurity advisor at DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office, where he advised on biosurveillance, attribution, epidemiological modeling, and AI:bio uplift risk. Before that, he served as Advisor for Interagency R&D Oversight at the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR). An epidemiologist by training, he holds a PhD in population health sciences from Harvard University, and has conducted peer-reviewed epidemiological modeling research on biosafety and global health security.