Dr. Neil Wasserman

Neil H. Wasserman is an adjunct prof. in Computer Science at George Washington University (GW).  He teaches the course on blockchain technology and applications.  The course works as a laboratory for blockchain use case development. He and his students have developed designs for applications of blockchain technology to a wide variety of application domains including satellite tracking, land registration, trade authentication, currency stabilization, IoT device access and other areas.  Wasserman has served as co-chair of the GBBC Technical Standards Working Group for the GSMI and serves on the organizing committee of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference.  Wasserman is also a research associate at the GW Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute focusing on applications of blockchain and related technologies to Disaster Risk Reduction. One project is to use blockchain to enable data sharing and improved risk models for disaster prediction and response.  He has spoken frequently on networked behaviors and complex systems at IEEE conferences and other venues.  Neil Wasserman has a PhD. (history of science) from Harvard University, and an A.B. (physics) from Cornell University.  He has held Marshall and NSF fellowships at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, and M.I.T. 

Current interests: data interoperability for disaster risk reduction, blockchain applications, tech ethics and data integrity, behavioral networks and synchronization.