Annalyn (Annie) Bachmann

PhD Candidate in Political Science

Annalyn H. Bachmann (Annie) is a PhD student in Political Science at Northeastern University. She also serves as a Doctoral Research Assistant for the Defense Industrial Base Institute and Product Manager for MIT Horizon. Her previous roles include Team Manager at Amazon and Manager for the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, where she helped design collective intelligence-based research methodologies that focused on how to optimize human-computer connections to solve complex problems. Her research explores how groups, organizations, and societies can harness collective knowledge and decision-making to address complex governance challenges — from policy design to democratic participation. Her recent focus is on wilderness search and rescue. She has an M.A. in Sustainable International Development and an M.A. in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She also has a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and Comparative Politics from Emmanuel College. Annalyn is from Maine, but lives in Watertown with her husband and cat Mr. Bopa. In her free time, she hikes and skis in the White Mountains.

Related Schools & Departments

Political Science

Research Interest

Collective intelligence, governance, wilderness search and rescue, computational social science, and participatory systems

Prior work

Annalyn’s prior work includes Team Manager at Amazon and MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence. She has served as a Product Manager for MIT Horizon for the last five years. While at Brandeis, Annalyn was also a Graduate Research Analyst for the Western Extremism Project led by Dr. Jytte Klausen.

Publications

Bachmann, A., König, A., Laubacher, R., Kong, D. (2023). Using collective intelligence to assess the future with the Pandemic Supermind. The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance.

Bagiati, A., Salazar-Gomez, A.F., Bachmann A., Kennedy, K., Breazeal, C. (2023). AI For Leadership: Implementation And Evaluation An AI Education Program. 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). (Conference paper)

Laubacher, R., Bachmann, A., Kennedy, K., Malone, T.W. (2023). Supermind Design for inventing smarter organizations: Applying a new organizational design approach in a professional services setting. SSRN. (Working paper)

Laubacher, R. et. al. (2020). Using a Supermind to Design a Supermind: A Case Study of University Researchers and Corporate Executives Co-Designing an Innovative Healthcare Concept. SSRN. (Working paper)

Mataix, C. et. al. (2020). Opportunity to Foster Urban Innovation Through Universities: The Case of Madrid. Sustainable Development Goals and Institutions of Higher Education.

Conference Presentations

Speaker. Minds and Tech: AI Solutions, Toulouse, France. (2019).

Overcoming Top-Down Nationalism with Collective Governance. NYSPSA. (2019).

Paper Presentation (co-author). A Comparative Analysis of Demographic Stratification and Roles in “Homegrown” Jihadist Organizations, Conference of the Research Area “Migration and Diversity”. (2018).

Paper Presentation. The Socioeconomic Divide: The Differences between Development in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. American Association of Geographers. (2017).

Graduate Panelist. The Socioeconomic Divide: The Differences Between Development in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Northeastern Political Science Association. (2016).

Paper Presentation. The Socioeconomic Divide: The Differences Between Development in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Boston College Growing Apart Conference. (2016).

Undergraduate Panelist. Environmental Politics: EU ETS. Northeastern Political Science Association. (2015).

NYU Policy Case Competition Semi-Finalist. India-Pakistan Border Security. (2017).

Contact info:

Renaissance Park, 9th Floor
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02120
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://bachmanna1994.github.io/

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