Byron Cohen

Byron Cohen is a biosecurity advisor at DARPA's Biological Technologies Office, where he advises on biosurveillance, attribution, epidemiological modeling, and AI:bio uplift risk. Previously, 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.