Branden Stone is a graduate of the University of Kansas in 2012 with a doctorate in mathematics. Stone specialized in commutative and homological Algebra, authoring several publications in peer-reviewed journals. Before joining GTRI, Stone was a Senior Data Scientist at The Boeing Company (Sept 2021—Oct 2022) and a Research Scientist III at Assured Information Security in Rome, NY (June 2020—Sept 2021). As an academic, he held positions at Bard College, Adelphi University, and Hamilton College from 2012—2020 where he advised research students and taught Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics across the curriculum. Currently, Stone is involved in machine learning research for cybersecurity in areas such as logic tensor networks, malware classification, and binary similarity via program dependency graphs.