Courtland VanDam

Dr. Courtland VanDam is a technical staff member in the Artificial Intelligence Technology and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Her primary interests are in natural language processing, counter–influence operations, and applications of machine learning to cybersecurity.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory in 2019, VanDam researched disinformation detection at Michigan State University. In 2018, she received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining for her paper on detecting compromised accounts on Twitter.

VanDam earned a BA degree in Spanish literature from Kalamazoo College in 2008, and an MS degree and a PhD degree in computer science from Michigan State University in 2012 and 2019, respectively.