With engineering, economics, and comparative complex organization theory / political science degrees, Chris C. Demchak is the Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper Professor of Cyber Security and the senior cyber scholar of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. In her research on cyberspace as a globally shared insecure complex "substrate," Demchak takes a systemic approach to emergent structures, comparative institutional evolution, adversaries' use of systemic cybered tools, virtual worlds and gaming for operationalized organizational learning, burgeoning roles of artificial intelligence as "cyber's offspring," and designing systemic resilience against imposed surprise.
