I am a Research Associate at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. I recently defended my PhD at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. I use computational methods to investigate uses of digital technologies in international politics.

My research addresses how digital authoritarians benefit from ICT vulnerabilities in the context of transnational information ecosystems and whether technology companies enable such actors to push their respective political agendas. In my dissertation entitled Platformed Power Plays: Authoritarian Adaptations in Foreign Social Media Spaces, I focus on how high-capacity authoritarian regimes and their supporters use social media to exert their influence and limit dissenting voices—even in foreign social media spaces where their governments do not have direct territorial or regulatory control over platform governance and content moderation.

Before graduate school, I was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia and worked in the Asia-Pacific Regional Office at Open Society Foundations. I hold an MPP in Policy Analysis from the Hertie School in Berlin and a BSc in Economics and Asian Studies from Tulane University.