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Roger Hurwitz is a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) and a senior fellow at the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, University of Toronto. He currently coordinates “Metanorm: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of Norms and Governance for Cyberspace,” and was the principal founder of “Explorations in Cyber International Relations,” two research programs funded by the U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative. He is also the organizer and co-chair with Professors Ronald Deibert and Joseph Nye of the annual Cyber Norms Workshops. In addition to cyber security policies, his research interests include computational modeling of international conflict and cooperation, automated content analysis, and the consequences of cyber censorship and surveillance on societies. A Ph.D. in computational social science, he has taught at MIT and the Hebrew University.