Haiman Wong is a fellow for the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team. Outside of R Street, she serves as a co-chair in the AI Safety, Cybersecurity, and Inclusion Through Advanced Text Analytics minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). 

Before joining R Street, Haiman was a cyber threat intelligence associate and data scientist at Northern Trust, where she used NLP techniques to analyze more than a million cybersecurity logs. She also advised executive leadership on emerging cyber threat activities to shape the firm’s global cyber defense strategy. 

Haiman is a doctoral candidate at Purdue University, exploring the intersection of technology leadership in innovation and the influence of emerging technologies on the democratic exchange of digital information. She holds a master’s degree in data science with a cybersecurity concentration, and a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies (communications, legal institutions, economics, and government) from American University.