Stephen Matthew Elin
I am a Data Scientist and Analyst with the City of New York and a former Assistant Professor. I hold graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the New School for Social Research, and the University at Buffalo, as well as an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I have also completed professional programs at Stanford University and the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, I have held teaching and research positions throughout the Northeast. My professional affiliations include the Association for Automated Reasoning, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for Symbolic Logic, the Game Theory Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the Philosophy of Science Association, and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, among others.
Representative Publications:
“The Mathematical Machinery of Causal Inference: From Data to Decision Advantage,” Intelligence and National Security (forthcoming, 2025).
Working papers:
“Knowing in Hell: Machiavelli, Political Realism, and Epistemic Game Theory”
