Cliff Joslyn

Cliff Joslyn is a Visiting Professor of Systems Science at Binghamton University (SUNY) and Chief Scientist for Knowledge Sciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He holds adjunct appointments at Portland State University and has extensive experience across academia, national labs, and industry. His research focuses on mathematical systems theory, computational topology, hypergraph analytics, and semantic technology, with applications in cybersecurity, computational biology, and high-performance computing.

• Education: BA in Cognitive Science and Mathematics (Oberlin College), MS and PhD in Systems Science (Binghamton University).
• Affiliations: PNNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Goddard, and software industry collaborations.

His work integrates formal mathematical models with practical computational methods, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches. Recent research includes developing the HyperNetX Python package for hypergraph analysis and advancing topological methods for network science.

Key Projects: Cybersecurity hypergraph models, molecular hypernetworks for metabolomics, and topological data analysis (TDA) in machine learning. He has led US government-funded projects in areas like blockchain, reliability analysis, and bioinformatics.