I am a political anthropologist with a history of work across government, non-profit, academic, and multilateral organizations. My research focuses on uses of artificial intelligence in state and international organization decision-making processes.

Currently I am a senior fellow at the United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research, where I conduct research on uses of AI technologies in the United Nations conflict prevention and response architecture. In the past I served as visiting fellow at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) and the International Peace Institute (IPI), and have worked for various national governments (Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom) and the World Bank leading research teams and gaining direct experience designing innovative AI-based governance tools.

My research has been presented at venues including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and numerous other organizations as well as dozens of academic conferences organized by leading political and social science associations.

Since receiving my PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 2010 I have published a wide variety of academic papers, policy publications, and full-length monographs. My most recent work looks at how multilateral organizations may seek to strengthen their predictive capacity in ethical and inclusive ways.

My new book, Political Automation: An Introduction to AI in Government and its Impact on Citizens (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming February 2025) investigates uses of AI to produce public policy decisions in a range of geographic contexts and seeks to better theorize the changing role of citizens in the act of policy production. The book is the first to utilize an ethnographic framework to compare the impact of AI in government on changing state-citizen relations in the West, East, and Southern Hemisphere.

I also teach extensively, previously as associate professor at Pukyong National University in South Korea and visiting faculty at John Cabot University in Rome, and currently as associate professor at Mercy University and as adjunct associate professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).