Joel Finkelstein is the co-founder and chief science officer of the Network Contagion Research Institute, which innovates methods in cyber social sciences to address threats in the information age. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where his award winning, doctoral work focused on the Psychology and Neuroscience of addiction and social behavior.
He currently directs the Network Contagion Lab, at the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University where he trains the next generation of students in the field of critical intelligence, social-cyber threat identification, and threat forecasting. His work on hate in social media has appeared in 60 minutes, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, NPR and other media outlets.