Bill Marcellino

Bill Marcellino is a Lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST), a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Professor of Text Analytics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He also serves as a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. His academic foundation includes a PhD in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University, and he brings operational experience from his service as a US Marine tank officer and enlisted rifleman.

Research Focus: Marcellino specializes in interdisciplinary studies bridging technology and security, with emphasis on:

• Information as a warfighting function
• Military behavioral health (resilience, suicide/hazing prevention)
• Counter-terrorism and violent extremism analysis
• Social media analytics for large-scale conflict assessment
• Development of text-mining tools (e.g., RAND-Lex analytics suite)

Teaching: At CMIST, he instructs graduate and undergraduate courses including:

• 84-339: Seminar in Public Policy Research
• 84-390/84-690: Social Media, Technology, and Conflict