Neil H. Wasserman

Neil H. Wasserman is adjunct faculty in the Computer Science Dept. at George Washington University, Washington, DC. ) a Faculty Affiliate of the International Institute of Science and Technology Policy at the Elliott School at GW. He also serves as co-chair of the Technical Standards Working Group of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), and a research associate at the GW Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute for the project on “Tech + Disaster Risk Reduction.” He taught the course on blockchain technology, in which his students have developed designs for applications of blockchain technology to a wide variety of application domains including satellite tracking, land registration, trade authentication, currency stabilization, IoT device access and other areas. Wasserman's research interests have expanded to address the challenges of governance and data integrity in relation to AI systems. His current focus is on mitigation of misinformation and the use of incentives to change behaviors in social networks. Wasserman has a Ph.D. (history of science) from Harvard University, and an A.B. (physics) from Cornell University. He has held Marshall and NSF fellowships at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, and M.I.T. He also has family connections to Southwest France and travels there frequently