Marci Andino has served as Sr. Director of the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC) at the Center for Internet Security since October 2021. In this capacity, Ms. Andino oversees the operation of the EI-ISAC and works with state and local election officials to increase their cybersecurity posture through the use of products and services provided by the EI-ISAC.

Prior to joining the EI-ISAC, Ms. Andino served as the chief state election official and Executive Director of the South Carolina State Election Commission for nineteen years. Ms. Andino was responsible for overseeing the conduct of primary, general and special elections in South Carolina to ensure that elections are conducted in a fair and impartial manner. She was also responsible for supervising county boards of voter registration and elections and serves as agency liaison with the General Assembly. The State Election Commission is an independent agency responsible for supporting the statewide voter registration system, statewide voting system, performing county compliance audits, administering a training and certification program for county election officials and conducting candidate filing.

Ms. Andino previously held various positions within the S.C. State Election Commission such as Deputy Executive Director and Director of Information Services and Special Projects. During this time, she coordinated the implementation of the National Voter Registration Act, also known as “Motor Voter,” assisted in developing a training and certification program for county voter registration and election officials and coordinated the implementation of the statewide voter registration system in county voter registration offices. Ms. Andino was also an adjunct faculty member in the Information Sciences Department at Midlands Technical College.

Karine Bannelier is Associate Professor of International Law at the University Grenoble Alps (France) and Director of the Grenoble-Alps Cybersecurity Institute. She is also Deputy Director of the Chair on the Legal and Regulatory Implications of Artificial Intelligence at the Multidisciplinary Institute for AI (Grenoble). She has published extensively on cybersecurity issues and participated as an observer to the UN Cybercrime Negotiations.

Dr. J. Scott Brennen is the Head of Online Expression Policy at the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Scott also works as a communication scholar who holds a postdoctoral research position at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the Oxford Internet Institute.

His research focuses on the impact of evolving media structures, cultures, and technologies on the dissemination and manipulation of scientific information. Specifically, he is involved in the Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science, and Media, a project that investigates the intricate relationship between scientific misinformation, news reporting, and social media platforms in shaping public understanding of science and technological advancements.

Scott earned his doctoral degree from the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. His doctoral dissertation delved into media coverage and practices concerning the detection of dark matter research collaborations. Through this study, he aimed to gain insights into how information about new scientific research flows through today’s media landscape.

Prior to pursuing his doctorate, Scott obtained a Master of Arts in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Grinnell College. Additionally, he dedicated his time as a high school chemistry teacher in northern Mozambique while serving in the U.S. Peace Corps.

Scott’s research has been featured in prominent publications such as Communication Theory, Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Science in Context.

Professor Carl T. Dahlman, Ph.D., is the Director of the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies for the University of South Carolina.  He is a political geographer whose research primarily focuses on the effects of armed conflict on human populations, especially the dynamics of ethnic cleansing/genocide and forced migration on post-war state-building processes in the former Yugoslavia and Middle East. His fieldwork has been funded by the National Science Foundation and other sources and his publications include a detailed co-authored book on post-war Bosnia in addition to over 40 articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in French and Serbo-Croatian and he has published in the Atlantic Monthly. He is currently writing a book about post-war Kosovo, as well as investigating a variety of topics such as cultural landscapes, extradition, and quasi-states. Dahlman has received commendations for teaching excellence and he has offered a wide range of courses on global topics in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary curricula including courses on refugee studies, population and migration, political geography, and geopolitics, as well as introductory and capstone courses. After serving at the University of South Carolina as an assistant professor in the early 2000s, and then as a faculty member at Miami University where he directed their large interdisciplinary International Studies program, he returned to USC in 2022.

Katrina Geddes is a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Law and Cornell Tech. Her research examines how technologies of prediction quietly destabilize normative pillars of legal and political institutions, including such bedrock principles as the presumption of innocence, respect for autonomy, and individualized justice. Her scholarship on deepfakes, AI, and autonomy is published or forthcoming in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, and the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal.

Jamil N. Jaffer is the Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University where he also serves as an Assistant Professor of Law, Director of the National Security Law and Policy Program, and Director of the Cyber, Intelligence, and National Security LLM Program. Jamil also teaches classes on counterterrorism, intelligence, surveillance, cybersecurity, and other national security matters, as well as a summer course held abroad with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.  Jamil is also affiliated with Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and previously served as a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2016 to 2019.

Jamil is also a Venture Partner with Paladin Capital Group, where he assists the firm with investments across the full range of its themes and theses, including a focus on dual-use national security technologies. Jamil also serves on the board of directors of RangeForce, a cybersecurity training and readiness platform startup and Tozny, a digital identity startup, and on the advisory boards of U.S. Strategic Metals, North America’s largest primary producer of cobalt, a critical mineral used in EV batteries, aerospace, and other national security applications; and Constella Intelligence, a deep and dark web intelligence startup. Jamil also serves as an advisor to Beacon Global Strategies, a strategic advisory firm and Duco, a technology platform startup that connects corporations with geopolitical and international business experts. Jamil is also the managing director of Trigraph Caveat Capital, a private investment vehicle.

Brian Leach holds dual master’s degrees in information systems security and data science, showcasing his strong cybersecurity and data analysis foundation. With over 20 years of experience in the electoral process, Brian has served as the Information Technology Director at the South Carolina State Election Commission, where he has played a critical role in safeguarding the integrity and security of the state's election systems. His professional achievements include a range of certifications, such as Certified Elections and Registration Administrator, Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer, CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst, and several GIAC certifications in information security, reflecting his commitment to his field.

Professor David Linnan joined the USC School of Law faculty 1987 after serving as a research fellow at Max Planck Institute in West Germany (1979–81) and as an associate attorney with O'Melveny & Myers in L.A. and New York (1981–87). A specialist in Asian Law, he has focused much of his recent research and service on Indonesia where he has been a senior scholar with the Fulbright Southeast Asia Regional Research Program, in cooperation with the University of Indonesia, working out of the Jakarta Stock Exchange on capital markets regulation (12/94–1/95, 11/96–1/97); Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; visiting research fellow at the Indonesia Project, Department of Economics and the faculty of law (1/95–6/95); visiting professor, faculty of law, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015); program director and principal investigator under the USAID Cooperation Agreement (2000–04) establishing the Law and Finance Institutional Partnership (LFIP), Jakarta, Indonesia (2000 to date);  and lecturer in the International Undergraduate Program of the faculty of law, Gadjah Mada University (IUP FH-UGM, 2012 to date).

Spencer Overton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University. He is the author of the book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression, the law review article Overcoming Racial Harms to Democracy from Artificial Intelligence, and several other publications on democracy and race. He also directs GW Law's Multiracial Democracy Project, which is currently working on research projects on the implications of artificial intelligence and alternative election systems for truly representative democracy in the United States.

He has testified several times before Congress on policies to stop online disinformation and deepfakes (June 2020, October 2020, March 2023, and November 2023), voter suppression, and the Voting Rights Act. He has also appeared as a frequent commentator on election law issues on MSNBC, NPR, and other media outlets, and is a contributor to the Election Law Blog.

Professor Overton held several senior leadership roles during the Obama campaign, transition, and Administration. During the 2008 presidential campaign, he led over 140 experts as chair of the campaign’s Government Reform Policy committee. On the transition, he chaired the Election Assistance Commission Agency Review Team, served on the Federal Election Commission Agency Review Team, and helped write the Administration’s ethics guidelines while serving in the office of the General Counsel. During the Administration, he was appointed as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice, and partnered with other senior officials in leading the Administration’s democracy policy efforts related to the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Administration’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow unlimited corporate spending in federal elections.

Professor Overton’s work on the Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission laid the groundwork for modern arguments against unnecessary voting restrictions. As a member of the DNC Presidential Nomination Scheduling Commission, he led an effort that resulted in Iowa restoring voting rights to over 80,000 returning citizens. He was also part of a group of commissioners that worked to successfully move more diverse states like South Carolina and Nevada to the beginning of the modern Democratic presidential primary process, which would later have significant implications in selecting the Democratic nominee in 2008 (Barack Obama) and 2020 (Joseph Biden).

From 2014-2023, Professor Overton served as the President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies—America’s Black think tank—where he rebuilt the organization and worked closely with other civil rights leaders, the Congressional Black Caucus, and various other federal, state, and local policymakers to increase diversity among top political appointees and to devise and advance racially-equitable policies.

Professor Overton currently serves on the board of the Leadership Conference Education Fund, which is the education and research arm of the nation's oldest and largest civil and human rights coalition - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. He has also served on the national boards of the American Constitution Society, the Center for Responsive Politics (Open Secrets), Common Cause, and Demos, and served as an advisory board member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Professor Overton practiced law at the firm Debevoise & Plimpton, clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Damon J. Keith, and graduated with honors from both Hampton University and Harvard Law School.

Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor of History and director of the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She researches social movements and political participation in local, national, and transnational dimensions. Her sole-authored books include The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (UNC Press, 2002) and Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age (UNC Press, 2013). She is co-lead of the Southwest PA Civic Resilience Initiative of the Pitt Disinformation Lab at Pitt’s Institute for Cyber Security.

David Sella Villa is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law who specializes in teaching Data Privacy Law and Cybersecurity.  He was formerly the Chief Privacy Officer for the State of South Carolina and headed the state’s Enterprise Privacy Office.

David was previously an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law, where he taught Data Privacy Law.  He holds several privacy certifications. David is also a member of the SC Interagency Drone Users Consortium and the Sedona Conference.  David is also the author of law review articles dealing with privacy and emerging technologies.

Prior to being Chief Privacy Officer for the State of South Carolina, David was Assistant General Counsel for the South Carolina Department of Administration.  Prior to that, David worked as General Counsel for a private aviation company.  He earned his law degree from the College of William & Mary, where he continues to serve as Adjunct Faculty.  He also has degrees from the London School of Economics and West Virginia University.

Biplav Srivastava is a Professor of Computer Science at the AI Institute and Department of Computer Science at the University of South Carolina which he joined in 2020 after two decades in industrial research. He directs the 'AI for Society' group which is investigating how to enable people to make rational decisions despite the real world complexities of poor data, changing  goals and limited resources by augmenting their cognitive limitations with technology. His work in Artificial Intelligence spans the sub-fields of reasoning (planning, scheduling), knowledge extraction and representation (ontology, open data), learning (classification, deep, adversarial) and interaction (collaborative assistants), and extends to their application for Services (process automation, composition) and Sustainability (water, traffic, health, governance). Biplav has been involved with building innovative systems for decision support in domains as diverse as governance (IJCAI 2016, AI Magazine 2023), astronomy (AAAI 2018 best demo award), water (AAAI 2018), smart room (ICAPS 2018 demo runner up, IJCAI 2018), career planning (commercial product), market intelligence (AAAI 2020 deployed AI award), dialogs for information retrieval (ICAPS 2021), fairness assessment (AAAI 2021),  computer games (AAAI 2022), generalized planning (IJCAI 2023), information spread in opinion networks (AAAI 2024 best demo award), transportation, group recommendation (teaming (AAAI 2024 deployed AI award), meals) and health.

Biplav’s works have led to many science firsts and high-impact commercial innovations valued over billions of dollars, 200+ papers and 70+ US patents issued, and awards for papers, demos and hacks. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, AAAI Senior Member, IEEE Senior Member and AAAS Leshner Fellow for Public Engagement on AI (2020-2021). He has a Ph.D. and a M.S. from Arizona State University, USA and a B.Tech. from IIT-BHU, India. More details about his group and him are at, respectively, https://ai4society.github.io/ &  https://sites.google.com/site/biplavsrivastava/

Lisle primarily focuses his practice on appeals, public utility regulation, and complex civil litigation.  He advises and represents public utilities in regulatory proceedings, defends governmental entities and public officials, and litigates constitutional and election-related issues in state and federal court. Through his diverse practice, Lisle has gained experience handling class actions, complex appeals, declaratory judgment actions, extraordinary writs, injunctions, and original jurisdiction cases.

In addition to practicing, Lisle enjoys teaching Election Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the NMR&S Center on Professionalism, and he also serves as Vice President of the South Carolina Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, State Chair for the American Bar Association Council of Appellate Lawyers, and Co-Chair of the Appellate Subcommittee of the South Carolina Bar’s Judicial Qualifications Committee. In 2022, the Supreme Court of South Carolina appointed him to the Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization.

Lisle has published articles in the South Carolina Law Review, the South Carolina Lawyer, and the South Carolina Young Lawyer. And he has lectured, moderated, and participated in multiple CLEs and panel discussions at events hosted by the South Carolina Court of Appeals, University of South Carolina School of Law, South Carolina Bar, South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, South Carolina Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and American Bar Association Litigation Section.

A Columbia native, Lisle graduated cum laude from Wofford College, receiving his bachelor’s degree in government with a concentration in political thought and a minor in economics. He then earned his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he tutored in legal writing and served as Editor in Chief of the South Carolina Law Review.

Prior to joining Robinson Gray, Lisle clerked for the Honorable H. Bruce Williams at the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the Honorable David C. Norton at the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Rob is a member of the firm and practices in the areas of business litigation, administrative and regulatory law, and election law.  Rob has represented clients before the South Carolina Supreme Court and other levels of state and federal courts and has appeared before many local and state government entities.

He has litigated complex constitutional issues, election law issues, and numerous business disputes. Rob provides counsel on ethics matters including representation before the South Carolina Ethics Commission and the Legislature’s Ethics Committees. He has litigated numerous election disputes, with clients including incumbents, challengers, county election commissions and other interested stakeholders. He often appears before local government councils, boards and commissions on issues ranging from procurement to annexation matters. During the 2010 Census cycle, Rob represented local government entities in redistricting challenges. Also, as co-counsel for the South Carolina House of Representatives, he defended the House redistricting plans at the trial court level and through the appeal to the United States Supreme Court. After the 2020 Census was released, Rob again represented local government entities and the legislature in redistricting matters.

Rob also has extensive experience in government law ranging from handling regulatory complaints before state agencies to being counsel for a South Carolina State agency.  Rob is also a South Carolina Certified Mediator. As part of his service to the community, Rob regularly volunteers for groups that provide mediators for small claim matters in magistrate court.

Bryant Walker Smith is an associate professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina, as well as an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

Trained as a lawyer and an engineer, Smith advises cities, states, countries, and the United Nations on emerging transport technologies. He coauthored the globally influential levels of driving automation, drafted a model law for automated driving, and taught the first legal course dedicated to automated driving [pdf] (in 2012). Smith is currently writing on what it means for a company to be trustworthy. His publications are available at newlypossible.org.

Before joining the University of South Carolina, Smith led the legal aspects of automated driving program at Stanford University, clerked for the Hon. Evan J. Wallach at the United States Court of International Trade, and worked as a fellow at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He holds both an LL.M. in International Legal Studies and a J.D. (cum laude) from New York University School of Law and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to his legal career, Smith worked as a transportation engineer.