Instructor Profile
Benjamin Blakely, PhD
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Intelligence Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory
Benjamin Blakely leads Argonne National Laboratory’s Applied Research group in the Strategic Security Sciences division. He has over twenty years of operations, research, and teaching experience in the private, public, and education sectors.
Blakely earned his PhD and BSc degrees from Iowa State University, where he also designed and taught their Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Cybersecurity course.
His research interests span machine learning methods for risk management, critical infrastructure protection, and developing systems that can intelligently defend themselves.