Nathan Meehan, Ph.D

Dr. Meehan leads various research, training, and consulting projects for private and public clients. He is currently the Program Manager for the Global Peace Operations Initiative-funded Identifying Threats—Uruguay Project. He was also a lead researcher on a DHS-funded project to monitor and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on First Responders in partnership with the START Center. Lastly, from 2021-2023, he was the Co-Principal Investigator for the Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate-funded research and training project on evidence disclosure strategies in investigative interviews.

Prior to his tenure at Second Sight, he led the JDLR Project research team while he was a Social Scientist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Adversarial Modeling Exploitation Office. At the NRL, he also successfully managed a variety of short- and long-term projects for the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security on topics ranging from crime analysis to the development of web-based research platforms for visual search. He earned his Ph.D. at the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York Albany. Dr. Meehan is also a Certified Law Enforcement Analyst and worked as the Lead Crime and Intelligence Analyst.  As an analyst, he also assisted on an FBI Operation Safe Streets (OSS) Taskforce targeting violent gang members. Dr. Meehan has also instructed a variety of online and traditional undergraduate college course for SUNY Albany, Excelsior College, and the University of Maryland Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.

As Director of Research and Development for Second Sight Training Systems, outside of research and consulting projects, Dr. Meehan is responsible for developing and implementing course content, evaluation of existing course techniques and processes, the development of new training materials, and the transition of that research into practice.