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.

Alberto Bueno
Assistant Professor Doctor in Political Science at the University of Granada

Alberto Bueno is an associate member of the Peace and Conflict Institute of the University of Granada, Norwegian Centre for security and resilience (UTSYN) and associate professor at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Leipzig (Germany). He is an alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program of the U.S. Department of State. His main research interests are strategic culture studies, civil-military relations, and military and defense policy. He is a regular contributor to national and international media.