James L. Regens is a leading expert on technology innovation & development, national security, and intelligence. Dr. Regens is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Audax Concepts, an innovative technology incubator focusing on proprietary AI-enhanced systems and methods for solving problems at the tactical, operational and strategic edge. He holds four U.S. patents.
Dr. Regens is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Oklahoma Advisory Committee. Larry has field experience in Western Europe, Russia, China, Middle East, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. He has chaired multiple International Atomic Energy Agency technical consultancy committees and is former chair of the Group on Energy and Environment, Organization for Economic Cooperation Development.
His career includes service in the United States Marine Corps, U.S. Government policy/analytical positions, national laboratory research fellow, endowed chairs at Tulane and Oklahoma, and Regents Professor Emeritus and founding Director of the Center for Intelligence and National Security at the University of Oklahoma.
Larry has expertise in data analytics & computational modeling, risk & decision making, and innovative technologies. Dr. Regens has received over $40M in funding primarily from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Department of Homeland Security to conduct a series of large-scale, interdisciplinary projects.
Dr. Regens has over 200 peer reviewed publications including eight books. He has appeared in print and broadcast media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Strategy Bridge, Ottawa Citizen, The National (Abu Dhabi), Wavell Room, and ABC News as an expert source and commentator on a wide range of topics. He earned a BS with honors and MA from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.