Sara Farmer
AI & Cybersecurity Specialist at Bodacea Light Industries
Salisbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSara Farmer is an AI and cybersecurity specialist with 14 years’ experience applying data science to cognitive security, misinformation, and autonomous systems for both defense and social good. Currently at Dstl and as Chief Scientist for the DISARM Foundation, she designs disinformation frameworks and infosec-based reporting standards that bridge technical detection with human-centered response. She founded Bodacea Light Industries to operationalize “misinfosec” principles, co-leading community efforts like the Credibility Coalition and partnering with the Global Disinformation Index on independent rating systems. Her background spans academia, humanitarian tech and industry—from teaching data-for-development at Columbia and UMD to building UAV safety and information-fusion systems at Thales and in defence research. Comfortable with petabyte-scale analysis and ML security (MLsec), she combines rigorous signal-processing roots with practical governance and crisis-response experience. Colleagues describe her as someone who seeks hard data problems that deliver measurable social impact.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSc by Research, Pattern Analysis and Neural Networks, MSc by Research, Pattern Analysis and Neural Networks at Aston UniversityArtificial Creativity, Artificial Creativity at University of YorkMSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at Queen Mary, U. of London
French, German, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
tactics10
explore10
counter10
infosec9
pytorch9
security9
cybersecurity9
deep-learning9
information-security9
react6
python6
open-data5
reinforcement-learning2
graph2
incident-response1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
misinfosecproject/amitt_framework
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
AMITT (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques) framework for describing disinformation incidents. AMITT is part of misinfosec - work on adapting information security practices to help track and counter misinformation - and is designed as far as possible to fit existing infosec practices and tools.
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
disinformationtechniquesinfluencesecurityadversarial
cogsec-collaborative/AMITT
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
AMITT (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques) framework for describing disinformation incidents. Includes TTPs and countermeasures.
Contributions:68 commits, 1 PR, 57 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pytorchdisinformationtechniquesinfluencedeep-learning
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