

Research Areas
My research spans three themes: fairness in algorithmic decision-making, nuclear and AI security, and energy security. This is my research whilst I am Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and International Security with UC IGCC.
The Postdoctoral Fellowship in Technology and International Security supports postdoctoral fellows whose research generates new theoretical and empirical insights into the relationship between technology, national security, and the global security environment. The program is supported by IGCC, together with the UC-managed National Laboratories: the Center for Global Security Research at the Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the National Security and International Studies Office at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
The UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) is a research network comprised of scholars from across the University of California and the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories that conducts policy-relevant research to mitigate conflict and promote a more peaceful world order. Our focus is on challenges that have the potential to lead to wide-scale conflict, and that can benefit from global cooperation to solve. Our portfolio includes both traditional security issues—defense innovation, strategy and deterrence, nuclear weapons policy, and security cooperation—and emerging and non-traditional challenges such as climate change, geoeconomics and great power competition, and threats to democracy. In each of these areas, IGCC builds diverse, multidisciplinary research teams that analyze the causes and consequences of global conflict—and help develop practical solutions.
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The adoption of algorithms in every aspect of modern life necessitates that these synthetic decision-making processes are built fair and equitable from the ground up.
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As novel nuclear designs are installed in emerging nuclear states, nuclear security by design is at risk of being discounted in favour of cheaper technology. This research looks at the trade-offs between these two objectives.
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Nuclear energy will play a central role in the decarbonisation of the global energy mix. Establishing trust in nuclear power is an essential part of this conversation.


