2023 Yale Student Participants

Anisha Acrot

Ashina Acrot is a senior in Yale College studying global affairs and economics. She is fluent in Chinese and Russian and has spent time studying and living abroad in both countries. Her academic focus is on the United States' relationship with China and Russia and related great power dynamics. Anisha is a member and former captain of the varsity sailing team and is from Portland, Oregon. Like a true Oregonian, she enjoys spending time outdoors, including hiking, backpacking, and swimming. Anisha will be working at McKinsey in New York after graduation. 

Syuhada Adnan

Syuhada Adnan is a candidate for Master of Advanced Study in Global Affairs at Yale University. She is a Malaysian diplomat and scholar of the Government of Malaysia. At Yale, she is interested to pursue several key issues in international affairs including the science and technology in global affairs, climate change, as well as energy and cyber security. Syuhada has served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia for more than thirteen years and was involved in the design and implementation of foreign policy. She undertook various portfolios including on maritime affairs, human rights, and politics in Southeast Asia. Originally from Ipoh, Malaysia, Syuhada graduated with a B.A. in International Studies (Global Security) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jamie Beaton

Jamie Beaton graduated from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude in 2016 with a Bachelors and Masters in Applied Mathematics. In 2017 Jamie was featured on the 2017 Forbes Asia - 30 Under 30 List. In June 2019, Jamie graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business with an MBA and Masters of Arts in Education (Arjay Miller Scholar). He completed his DPhil in Public Policy on the Rhodes scholarship analyzing the drivers of student satisfaction and student outcomes in online learning environments. Jamie was appointed by the New Zealand National Party following the 2020 election as part of a five-person panel to conduct an internal assessment of the political party and develop its long-term strategy. He completed a Schwarzman Scholarship. Most recently, he has been completing a JD at Yale Law School focusing on corporate litigation, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and activist investing. He is the founder of Crimson Education, a global education company.

Sarita Benesch

Sarita Benesch is a third year Yale Law student. She received her B.S. from Cornell University. At Yale, she serves as the co-Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology and developed the Fashion Law and Technology reading group. She represented several ventures through the Yale Law Entrepreneurship and Innovation Clinic under the supervision of Professor Sven Riethmueller. She is interested in consumer protection, data privacy, and the responsibility of the private sector in resisting and responding to cyber threats.

Tobias Bennett

Colonel Tobias “Tobi” Bennett is a United States Army Field Artillery Officer assigned to the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks with duty as a Senior Service College Fellow at the Jackson School for Global Affairs, Yale University.  He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Northern Vermont University and a M.A. in Management and Leadership from Webster University.  During his 31-year career, COL Bennett served in assignments at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.  His assignments include 51 months deployed in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, and Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.  He is a graduate of the Mountain Warfare School, RANGER School, Airborne School, Arctic Leader Course, and Jumpmaster School.  Colonel Bennett is married to Amy Bennett (née Atchison) of Delray Beach, Florida. They have one son, Andrew.

Julia Bialek

Julia Bialek is a senior in Yale College hailing from Chappaqua, New York. She is pursuing a double major in Political Science and History, focusing on American government and history respectively. Passionate about gender equity, Julia hopes to devote a career to empowering women after graduation. When she is not in class, you can find her with a coffee in hand and a podcast in ear. 

Zachary Black

Zachary Black is an undergraduate senior double majoring in Global Affairs and East Asian Studies, where his career interests include cyber security, disinformation, economic inequality, human rights, and law. His story began in Iowa, where he volunteered for political campaigns which gave him an early perspective on issues that mattered to the United States and the globe. Yale and Jackson provided opportunities for growth that expanded his worldview. Thanks to the Yale Light Fellowship, Zach studied Chinese at Tsinghua University in China and at National Taiwan University in Taipei, where he also interned at a business and consulting law firm. During his Junior year, Zach turned his focus toward understanding the US-EU-China trilateral relationship. He became president of the student-run think tank European Horizons, and during the summer interned in Spain at Elcano Royal Institute, a top European think tank. As a senior, Zach is focusing his thesis and capstone work on understanding disinformation, propaganda, and cyber threats. In addition, he is interning for the U.S. State Department researching Taiwan-Europe relations. 

Matt Burtell

Matt Burtell is an undergraduate student at Yale studying computer science and mathematics. At Yale, he worked as a research assistant at Yale's Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab under Dragomir Radev. He also contributed to scaling law research that has been cited by Anthropic and Meta. Before college, he served four years in the Navy, where he administrated computer networks on an aircraft carrier. After graduating, Matt will join the Open Philanthropy Tech Policy fellowship, a program focused on policy around emerging technologies, including AI and biotechnology. As a fellow, Matt will contribute to AI policy at a think tank.

Katherine Chou

Katherine Chou is an undergraduate at Yale University interested in cognitive behavioral neuroscience of technology's impact, as well as policy work integrating AI with human goals. She has worked with the State Department on their technology policy education program, aided in the ODNI's creation of an AI incidences database, and researched international norms around emerging technology with AI Impacts. At Yale, she researches hierarchical structures of learning in the human brain in Dr. Samuel McDougle's ACT lab.

Rachel Cifu

Rachel Cifu is a senior in Yale College studying Economics and Data Science, with a particular interest in how technological innovations affect financial markets and U.S.-China relations. She first explored this through an internship with MarketAxess, where she investigated the differential digitization of bond trading networks in emerging markets and helped open Chinese on-shore bond markets to American investors. This inspired coursework in artificial intelligence and national security through the Schmidt Program on AI, Emerging Technologies, and National Power, and historical great power conflict through the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, both at the Jackson School. She works as a Research Assistant for the Special Competitive Studies Project, focusing on the impact of AI on US-China technoeconomic competition. This spring, she is also organizing the Yale US-China Colloquium in tandem with Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and is chairing the Global Investment Panel. To pursue her interests in financial markets and technology investing, she worked in BlackRock’s Private Credit group last summer and will work at KKR this summer. At Yale, Rachel is involved in the Yale Foreign Policy Initiative, Yale Undergraduate Diversified Investments, TAMID, the Hillhouse Fund at Yale, and the Yale Quantitative Research Group, where she works with foreign policy think tanks, teaches financial technicals, consults for Israeli startups, invests as a student-run VC in Yale startups, and researches applications of data science in finance. Rachel hopes to integrate her two main interests by investing in AI technologies with national security applications after graduation.

Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles is a joint MBA and MA in Global Affairs student focused on climate change, technology, and national security. At Yale, he interned at a startup building software to help to decarbonize the real estate sector, a think tank working to modernize how the US government adopts new technology, and an artificial intelligence company developing national security-focused tools. Before school, he served on destroyers in the US Navy. He deployed throughout the Mediterranean and Black Seas as the Electronic and Information Warfare Officer and deployed to South America and the western Pacific as the Fire Control Officer and acting Combat Systems Officer. He received his BA from Washington University in St. Louis with a major in Economics and a minor in Computer Science. After Yale, Stephen is looking for opportunities in the intersection of climate, technology, and policy. 

Oliver Dale

Oliver Dale currently serves in the British Military and is attending Jackson as a PRK fellow.

Major Nicholas Dockery

Major Nicholas Dockery is a Special Forces Officer, a General Wayne Downing Scholar at Yale University, and a United States Military Academy (USMA) graduate. MAJ Dockery began his career as an Infantry Officer. For his war times efforts in support of the Global War on Terror, he received two Silver Star medals for valor and two Purple Hearts. He led operational missions in Central and South America and served as the Aide-de-Camp to the 1st Special Forces Command commanding general. In the summer of 2022, MAJ Dockery interned at the US Embassy in Madrid, Spain, with the Office of Defense Coordination. MAJ Dockery's additional accolades include the Alexander R. Nininger Award for Valor at Arms at USMA; the US Army General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award for outstanding leadership in Special Operations; the Military Times Foundation named Major Dockery as their ‘2022 Soldier of the Year;' and a Military Outstanding Volunteer medal for his work with underprivileged youth. MAJ Dockery is pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs

Sam Feineh

 Sam Feineh is a second-year law student at Yale and hails from Sacramento, CA. Sam cares deeply about criminal justice reform. Before law school, he spent two years working at the Vera Institute of Justice, focusing on bail and sentencing reform. At Vera, he co-authored a white paper about using sentencing reform as a tool to end mass incarceration. More generally, he's interested in the intersection of policy, politics, and public service and hopes to work at this nexus throughout his career. At the law school, he's involved in the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and the Ludwig Public Sector Leadership Program. Last summer, he interned at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Sam graduated from Stanford University in 2019 with a B.A. in Political Science. He was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship upon graduating.

Joshua Golding

Joshua Golding is a second-year master’s student at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Following graduation from Tufts University in 2017, he worked as a cyber analyst with the U.S. Department of Defense and most recently in the MITRE Corporation with its strategy and policy department. Josh previously interned with the Office of the Secretary of Defense supporting acquisitions policy, the U.S. Naval War College, and the U.S. Department of State in Consulate General Barcelona’s Political-Economic Section.  At Yale, he studies U.S. cybersecurity policy and U.S.-Russia relations.

Joshua Herman

Joshua Herman is a third-year student at Yale Law School, and they are also completing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Joshua originally studied mathematics and economics at Brown University and the London School of Economics. After completing their undergraduate studies, Joshua spent two years conducting empirical research on international trade and finance topics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC. In their free time, Joshua enjoys playing classical music, hiking, dancing, and chess.

Josh Hochman

Josh Hochman is a second-year student at Yale Law School from New Jersey. He is an Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Executive VP of Yale's American Constitution Society chapter. Before law school, he worked for three years at WestExec Advisors, a geopolitical risk and strategic advisory firm in Washington, DC, where he focused on researching and analyzing U.S.-China relations. Josh is also passionate about state and local government and politics; he spent the summer of 2022 working for the New Jersey Solicitor General's Office. In the summer of 2023, Josh will be a Summer Associate at WilmerHale in Washington, DC. He received a BA in History from Yale College, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Alissa Johnson

Alissa Johnson grew up in Paris and Shanghai before attending undergrad in the middle of a cornfield. She got her B.A. from Grinnell College in Economics and Computer Science, worked as a penetration tester for Mercury Information Security Services, then spent two years as a Research Analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She is currently a first-year student at Yale Law School.

Samhitha Josyula

Samhitha Josyula is a senior in Davenport College from Ossining, NY pursuing a B.A. in Global Affairs with a certificate in Computer Science. She hopes to work at the intersection of technology and policy to understand and unravel its nuanced issues with the goals of protecting human rights, security, and privacy. This past summer, she worked as a junior researcher for the Atlantic Council under internationally recognized human rights lawyer and Uyghur activist Ms. Rayhan Asat, supported by the 1960 Les Aspin Fellowship. On campus, she serves as a Research Assistant at the MacMillan Center at Yale, working on the Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era (MADE) project. Samhitha has also been a violinist in the Yale Symphony Orchestra since her freshman year and an Associate Editor for the Yale Daily News Magazine, previously serving as an Arts Staffer and the Cultural Chair for Yale's South Asian Society. Upon graduation, she will be working as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company in New York.

Eli Kennard

Eli Kennard is a Junior at Yale College studying Computer Science and Psychology. Eli is interested in applying artificial intelligence to psychological findings and using findings in psychology to influence AI and cybersecurity. Both these topics can be applied to international relations as well, which is why Eli is looking at how these fields relate to foreign affairs. Apart from my studies, Eli enjoys building community through leadership in First-year Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT), Ultimate Frisbee, and by being a Community Consent Educator for Yale’s CCE program.

Sanchita Kedia

Sanchita Kedia is a senior in Davenport College from Los Angeles, California studying computer science and psychology. In the future, Sanchita hopes to combine her interest in tech and public good to work in civic tech roles. In the past, Sanchita has taught the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program, interned at Amazon Pharmacy as a software engineering intern, and interned as a product manager intern at Microsoft on the Dynamics 365 team. After graduation, Sanchita will return to Microsoft as a Product Manager. On campus, Sanchita is captain of the Yale Jashan Bhangra Team, a member of the CS50 ULA Head staff team, a beat reporter for the Yale Daily News University desk, and a research assistant for a psychology lab that is developing a virtual reality project to treat anxiety disorders. Outside of Yale, Sanchita is Executive Director of Hack4Change, a nonprofit association to teach coding to kids K-8 and a reporter for the Juggernaut, a publication for the South Asian diaspora with over 215,000 followers. 

Grace Kier

Grace Kier is a first-year student at Yale Law School. She holds an M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Russian/Post-Soviet Studies from the College of William & Mary. Grace was previously a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in the Russia and Eurasia Program.

Chloe Medina

Chloe Medina is a first-year student at Yale Law School. She majored in Political Science at Columbia University, with a concentration in East Asian studies. Her courses sparked an interest in national security and foreign policy that she is continuing to explore in law school.

Julian Melendi

Julian Melendi is a senior at Yale University studying Political Science with an Interdisciplinary Concentration in Law, Technology, and Society. He is an Undergraduate Fellow at the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School and a Student Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Julian is passionate about tackling privacy issues from a public-interest perspective, fighting for victims of discriminatory and faulty government surveillance technologies through impact litigation, pro bono legal services, and policy advocacy. Julian has worked at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, where he supported advocacy and litigation efforts to protect New Yorkers’ privacy and testified at City Hall on the disparate impact of surveillance technology on civil liberties and BIPOC communities. At Yale, Julian is the Project Manager for the Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era initiative and the Project Director for the Graphix Project, an international human rights project based out of the Schell Center at Yale Law School. Julian is also the President of Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honors society. He is a member of the Yale Debate Association, Yale Political Union, and Yale Model Congress. Julian also serves on the Political Science Undergraduate Advisory Committee where he helps shape department policy and coordinate events. Julian has previously worked in the United States Senate and the nonprofit pro-democracy advocacy space. As a public-interest technologist, Julian strives for a world wherein technology is used for good and becomes a bedrock of democracy.

Maksimas Milta

Maksimas Milta is a political scientist from Lithuania, where he is an Associate Analyst at Eastern Europe Studies Center and a foreign policy commentator at the Lithuanian National Radio and TV. Formerly a ReThink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US, Maksimas is a graduate student at the European & Russian Studies program at Yale.  

Jarett Monterio

Jarett Monterio is a MAS candidate at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is studying U.S./Russia/China relations in the context of national power competition, the practice of Intelligence, and their implications for U.S. national security. Jarett is a Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where he specializes in national security matters. Prior to the FBI, Jarett was a Special Agent in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). While in the DEA, he was a member of the New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force where he investigated drug trafficking organizations on a national and international level. Jarett has extensive experience collaborating with local, state, federal, and international law enforcement and Intelligence Community partners. 
Jarett received his MS with Distinction in enterprise risk management from St. John’s University (SJU) Tobin College of Business in 2022, and his BS cum laude in business/business economics from New York University Stern School of Business in 2012. While attending SJU, he was selected as a Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science Insurance Leader of the Year Fellow. Jarett was raised in Torrington, Connecticut by a strong single mother, and is a first-generation graduate student. He is a proud husband, avid reader, runner, and passionate supporter of the FBI Agent’s Association where he serves as an elected representative of hundreds of Special Agents from the New York chapter.

Grady Morrissey

Grady Morrissey is a junior at Yale College studying Applied Physics and Computer Science with an elective concentration in quantum computing. I work on quantum computers in a lab at Yale and co-lead Yale’s CubeSat program, which is launching a small satellite into low-Earth orbit (LEO) this year. Grady loves the intersection between policy and technical topics. 

Lee Ngatia Muita

Lee Ngatia Muita is a Computer Science major in the Yale College class of 2025. He is interested in developing Artificial Intelligence and its potential to solve the African education problem he has experienced as a Kenyan. Outside class, he writes for the Yale Scientific Magazine and CORTEX Magazine and works as a Student Technician for the Student Technology Collaborative. His hobbies include designing fictional worlds and concepts, playing strategy games and coding modifications to said games. Lee is studying and engaging with the cybersecurity debate so can understand cyber-diplomacy and the evolving role of African countries in it.

Jarek Neczypor

Jarek Neczypor is a first-year law student at Yale Law School. He joined the Navy in 2017, commissioning and forward deployed in Japan. He worked at USS ANTIETEM, Afloat Training Group Western Pacific, and Commander Naval Surface Forces Pacific. After almost five years in the Navy, he enrolled at YLS in 2022. In addition to classes, he currently works with the Veterans Legal Services and the Medical Legal Partnership.

Ann Nguyen

Ann Nguyen (she/her/hers) is a second year MBA student at the Yale School of Management. Before SOM, Ann joined Whole Whale, a B-Corp digital agency helping nonprofits increase their impact with data, tech, and design, as employee #4 and grew the company for over 7 years. She managed the technology and design practice while leading business development, working on causes from mental health to getting out the vote. She will be joining IBM’s Corporate Strategy team after earning her MBA to focus on AI, cloud, and sustainability strategies.

Inbar Pe’er

Inbar Pe'er is a first-year student at Yale Law School studying international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Before law school, she spent three years as a researcher and program coordinator at Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. At Saltzman, she worked closely with Keren Yarhi-Milo on issues of intelligence, credibility, and foreign policy crisis decision-making. She also worked on a book project about escalation dynamics in cyberspace with Erica Lonergan. While at Saltzman, Pe'er worked as a research consultant for the Atlantic Council's Geoeconomics Center, researching US-EU economic statecraft and central bank digital currencies. Pe'er graduated from Columbia University a year early with a degree in Political Science. As an undergraduate she was a Saltzman Student Scholar, an honor awarded for excellence in the field of international relations.

Clementine Perry

Clementine Perry is a senior at Yale College. At Yale, she is a Global Affairs major and a member of the varsity crew team. She is from Boston, MA and a tri-citizen of the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. She has spent time working in sourcing and acquisitions for B2B software, with a focus in Israeli and Japanese cybersecurity companies.

Landon Wike

Landon Wike, originally from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, graduated summa cum laude from Loyola Marymount University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. As an undergraduate student, he also volunteered over 300 hours tutoring in South-Central Los Angeles, and competed internationally as varsity debate captain. After graduation, Landon interned on Capitol Hill in the Washington, D.C. office of United States Senator Lindsey Graham. He then commissioned as an Officer in the United States Air Force through Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, in Montgomery, Alabama. Upon commissioning, he attended formal specialty training en route to his assignment with the 89th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. He spent four years at the 89th safeguarding diplomatic missions transporting the United States President, Vice President, First Lady, and other senior civilian and military officials. During this time, he also deployed to Spangdahlem Air Force Base, Germany in support of Operations Inherent Resolve and Freedom’s Sentinel. He now continues his service in the United States Air Force Reserve at Royal Air Force Base Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Landon is pursuing the Master in Public Policy in global affairs at the Yale Jackson School.

Ayesha K. Rasheed

Ayesha K. Rasheed is a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She is an attorney licensed to practice in California and is currently researching technology & intellectual property law issues, with a particular emphasis on genetic and biometric data laws, privacy, and secondary uses of data. Her past research has been published or is forthcoming in a variety of publications, including the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, University of Illinois Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, The Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, Intellectual Property Magazine, and the California Law Review Online. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, an M.Sc. from the University of Oxford and a B.S. with honors in Biology from Stanford University.

Alyssa Resar

Alyssa Resar is a first-year student at Yale Law School. She is interested in international, cyber, and U.S. foreign relations law. Previously, she worked as a foreign policy researcher for Dr. Graham Allison at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where she covered U.S.-China relations, cross-Strait security, and Chinese foreign policy. She also worked as an analyst tracking Chinese influence and disinformation operations on social media for a variety of U.S. government and private sector clients at Miburo Solutions. Resar graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Government and East Asian Studies. As an undergraduate, she was the Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Federico Roitman

Federico Roitman is a 1L student at Yale Law School. Most recently, Federico worked as an Information Integrity Officer at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, where he focused on issues of online disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, as well as on digital strategy in the context of elections. Prior to this role, he was a Consultant at Quadrant Strategies, where he worked with clients in the technology industry on strategy, crisis management, and reputation monitoring. At YLS, Federico is a submissions editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Government.

Neil Sachdeva

Neil Sachdeva is a 2nd year Computer Science and Economics student at Yale College. His focuses lie in artificial intelligence and cloud computing, and is interested in the future policy implications that advancements in these fields will bring. He hails from South Florida, and enjoys golfing in his free time.

Anusha Sarathy

Anusha Sarathy is a Senior at Yale College majoring in Global Affairs

Marcus Senninger

Marcus Senninger is an MPP student at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, focused on China-Africa relations, international development, and international markets. Previously, he worked for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security’s (CISA) Mis, Dis, and Malinformation team where he contributed to the development of a multitude of both analytical and public resilience products. Prior to his time at DHS, Marcus served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia and as an advisory consultant at Deloitte. As a Peace Corps volunteer, Marcus utilized his background in business and farming to develop rural aquaculture and teach essential business skills in his village. During his time at Deloitte, Marcus specialized in optimizing efficiency in the internal strategy and processes for major banks, technology companies, and retailers. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Carolina with majors in international business and finance and a minor in Chinese studies. Marcus is intending to pursue a career in the US government, or NGOs in the field of US-China-Africa relations, development, and business and is interested in understanding competition and collaboration between the US and China in Africa. 

Zubin Sharma

Zubin Sharma is an MPP student at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Zubin is also the founder of Project Potential, a community-based organization in Bihar, India, that aims to end poverty sustainably and inclusively in India’s 100 poorest districts. Through Project Potential, Zubin and the team are also creating their eArthshala campus, which they hope will become the leading institution for rural leadership in India. Zubin has been an Acumen Fellow, a N/Core Incubatee, a Dasra Social Impact Leadership Fellow, and a Center for Social Impact Strategy Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. At Jackson, Zubin is focused on exploring how to build democratic and responsive institutions from the ground up which can effectively enable disinvested communities to grow and thrive. Zubin received his BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania, the former in political science and South Asia Studies and the latter in nonprofit leadership. He was also awarded the Nonprofit Leadership award and scholarship for his MS.  Zubin has also worked as a Field Strategist with Schmidt Futures through the Act 2 Network.

Lily Siegel

Lily Siegel is a senior at Yale College majoring in Psychology. Her academic interests focus on understanding information processing, especially the ways in which human cognition often misguides decision-making, and how artificial intelligence may complement or supplant these human functions. At school, she explores this intersection of AI and behavioral science topics by conducting studies at the Comparative Cognition Laboratory where she has worked for four years and by participating in the Schmidt Program on AI, Emerging Technologies, and National Power at the Jackson Institute. Lily is also interested in data science, and her role in data analytics at a start-up last summer, in addition to her statistics and data science coursework at Yale, has helped her to hone skills in this area. After graduation, Lily hopes to combine her knowledge in psychology and data science with her interest in AI development; her ultimate goal is to explore ways to harness AI technology that might prevent errors caused by failures in human cognition

Teddy Tawil

Teddy Tawil is a sophomore Yale College student from New York City studying Ethics, Politics, and Economics. He is interested in the social impacts of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies, including machine bias and the impact of such technologies on democracy. He has previously worked for the Renew Democracy Initiative, a non-partisan pro-democracy non-profit organization founded by Garry Kasparov. He is also a member of the Yale Debate Association and a First-Year Outdoor Orientation Leader. 

Pauline Trouillard

Pauline Trouillard is a Resident fellow at the ISP. Her research entails the following topic: media law, media funding, competition law applied to the information economy, digital platforms, and privacy. She uses a comparatist and interdisciplinary methodology to search how to regulate media organisation, concentration, and content. She holds a PhD in public law from Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University (Paris, France), and a MPhil in comparative public law from Sorbonne School of Law. Her dissertation focused on Public Service Broadcasting under European Union Law, with the particular examples of Italy, France the UK. During her Ph.D., Pauline has been a visiting-scholar at Oxford University, and a Teaching Assistant at Sorbonne School of Law where she taught Comparative constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Human Rights Law. Prior to join the ISP, Pauline was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, in Florence. 

Doga Uenlue

Doga Uenlue is a senior at Yale College, double majoring in Global Affairs and Cognitive Science with a focus on decision-making. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, she is a native Turkish speaker with intermediate fluency in German and Russian. Doga is combining security studies with the cognitive sciences to bring new perspective to strategic decision-making in international relations and conflict resolution. Over the summers, she worked at the Institute for the Study of War as an intelligence analysis intern on the Turkey team - focusing on Afghanistan, Northern Syria, and Turkey-Russia competition in the defense industry - and at The Cohen Group as a summer analyst, acting as the point of person for the Eurasia West region. She also has experience in the Turkey-European Union relations, maritime conflicts in the Eastern Mediteranian, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Claudia Wilson

Claudia Wilson is an MPP student at Yale, interested in trade and diplomacy, with a focus on China and its relationship with developing countries. Before attending the Jackson School, Claudia spent three years at the Boston Consulting Group in Melbourne, providing strategic advice to clients across the public sector, healthcare, financial services and retail industries. While at BCG, she was deeply involved in Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as how to minimize unconscious bias in recruitment. Claudia graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2018 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) in economics and finance. Her Honors thesis, “The Gender Pay Gap: The Role of Motherhood and Fertility Intentions,” employed large time series data and was awarded the Kinsman prize. During her degree, Claudia spent six months on exchange at Fudan University in Shanghai, where she studied Mandarin full-time and interned at the Australian Chamber of Commerce. At Yale, Claudia plans to deepen her understanding of development economics and trade policy, while taking further advanced classes in Mandarin. 

Thomas Woodside

Thomas Woodside spent the last several years doing technical research in machine learning. He became increasingly concerned about safety and security challenges stemming from AI systems, which led him to help start the Center for AI Safety, where he was a researcher and a project manager. After graduation, Thomas will work at a think tank as part of the Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship.

Nanshan (Nathan) Xu

Nanshan (Nathan) Xu, born and raised in Shanghai, is a MBA/MPP joint degree student at Yale, studying U.S. -China relations and the economic and social challenges of technological innovation and competition. Prior to Yale, Nathan worked at a boutique investment bank in New York, advising clients on cross-border financing and M&A transactions for several early-stage biotech companies. During his summers at Yale, Nathan interned in the Business Development department at Johnson & Johnson, identifying co-development, licensing, and acquisition opportunities to bring innovative therapeutic solutions across borders. He received his BA in Economics from Bard College.

Kelly Zhou

Kelly Zhou is a senior in Computing and the Arts at Yale College. She has a wide variety of interests spanning cybersecurity, social systems, and sociolinguistics. Last semester, Kelly worked on building out Lawfare’s course on cyber security and hacking. She has previously conducted research on cross-cultural exchanges in business and geopolitics. Kelly hopes that such research can help us better understand and tackle current divides in global communication and security.

Wenfei Zhou

Wenfei Zhou is a second-year MBA student at Yale School of Management and a researcher at Yale's Language, Information, and Learning (LILY) Lab, where he tries to teach large language models how to reason well. Prior to coming to Yale, he founded an ed-tech company in China, pursued a master's in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied the history of political thought at Stanford University and École Normale Supérieure Paris as a PhD student. He has lived extensively abroad and speaks English (native), Chinese (native), French (advanced), and German (elementary). Post-graduation, he will be joining Nvidia as a Senior Product Manager in Data Strategy, supporting the company's ongoing efforts in developing its multilingual speech AI & NLP products. In his free time, he enjoys reading science fiction and contemplating the relationship between great power competition and emerging technologies. He considers himself an offensive realist and aspires to be a positive voice in US-China relations.