William Marcelino – Ponente Defensa y Yo 4.0
Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist: Professor of Policy Analytics, Pardee Rand Graduate School

Bill Marcellino is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a professor of political analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and a lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and Johns Hopkins University. He trained as a sociolinguist and corpus linguist, and at RAND develops AI applications, including RAND-Lex, RAND’s proprietary text analysis suite. Marcellino teaches classes in text analysis and natural language processing (NLP), as well as qualitative research methods. His research focuses on information as a warfare function, the application and acquisition of AI technology for the Department of Defense, military resilience, and disinformation and conspiracy theories in social networks. He also helps lead RAND’s AI development in specialized LLM and LLM-enabled applications. He has also served as a U.S. Marine Corps tank officer and enlisted rifleman. Marcellino received his PhD in rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University.

Arturo López Zapico
Phd in Contemporary History at the Autonónoma University of Madrid

Arturo López Zapico has done research stays at SUNY New Paltz, UMASS at Amherst, University of Leeds, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, UC Davis and George Washington University. His research activity includes the publication of different books and scientific articles on the political and economic relations between Spain, USA and Chile in the 20th century, as well as the study of issues related to American press and propaganda during Franco’s regime. Since February 2018, he has been vice-dean of undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.