User:Tommy Ciszek
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Vitæ
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA
Citizendium Constable
Education
- Ph.D. Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School, Present
- M.S. Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005
- B.S. Mathematical Decision Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
Experience
- Cybersecurity Metric Development (RAND)
- Annotation of Structured Data Project (UNC-CH, Microsoft)
- Smith Barney Equity Research (Citigroup)
- Uganda - Parliamentary politics and NGOs (Pathfinder International)
- Morocco - Arabic studies and the impact of Technology on Democratization in the Maghreb
Honors
- Doctoral Fellowship, RAND Corporation, 2006
- Lisa Burmeister Computer and Information Science Fellowship, Chapel Hill, NC 2005-2006
- Morehead Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000-2004
Research Interests
Exploring the state of information policy and cybersecurity economics. Projects seek to create security metrics for information technology decision-making. Work includes modeling information security breaches, evaluating information security survey instruments, applying benefit-cost analysis to information security investments, and studying the efficiency of social network topologies.
Life
- Varsity Cheerleading, University of North Carolina Tar Heels, Captain 2001-2005
- Armchair research -- quantifying social software
- Kite flying, road cycling
- Ballet