Doowan Lee

Dr. Doowan Lee is President of EdgeTheory Government, an AI company that provides detection, prioritization, and visualization solutions on influence dynamics in the information environment. He works closely with DoD and intelligence organizations to develop automated tools for operations in the information environment. He’s also a member of the Social Media Task Force at Georgetown University. Lee has extensively published in leading journals and magazines on how to mitigate the harms of malign information in content supply chains. Before joining EdgeTheory, he founded and worked at leading AI companies in Silicon Valley. He also taught at the Naval Postgraduate School for more than 11 years as a faculty member and principal scientist where he developed and executed operational and communications technology projects with federal R&D agencies to support the U.S. government’s efforts to combat violent extremist networks and  foreign malign influence. 

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a paradigm shift for how we seek, generate, share, amplify, and weaponize digital data. We’ve seen an increasing rate of AI-enabled social engineering that sows confusion and disruption about both public and private institutions. However, generative AI also provides tremendous potential to compete more effectively in the cyber environment. By ingesting, normalizing, and classifying vast volumes of social media, deep web, dark web, and cyber data, AI models can greatly assist us to accelerate and expand how we map and understand where threats come from, how they propagate, and even what they may attempt to target. No modern conflict can be won without synthesizing AI with cyber and information operations.