Herbert Lin is senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. He is also a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In 2016, he served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. In 2019, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, he was a commissioner on the Aspen Commission on Information Disorder. From 1986 to1990 he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT.