About
I am Assistant Professor of Digital Systems and International Affairs at Georgia Tech's Sam Nunn School. My career has sat between two conversations that tend to talk past each other: communities of engineers and computer scientists building digital infrastructure and the policy and regulatory community working hard to govern it. With a PhD in interdisciplinary computer science and previous roles as senior policy advisor in the UK government and at Britain's Competition & Markets Authority, I am at home in both worlds. My job is to make each side more legible to the other and to figure out what gets lost in translation.
In practice, that means I work across quantum computing and communication, cloud architectures, AI, and internet technologies on one side, and national security, sovereignty, strategic competition, and security governance on the other. Empirically, I trace who actually builds emerging critical infrastructure, and what that concentration of design authority means for power, control, and risk.
My research follows emerging infrastructure from protocol design to geopolitics:
- Quantum security as it actually works: Threat and cascade models, attack surfaces, failure modes, and which security claims survive contact with reality.
- The quantum internet and the question of control: Privacy-enhancing promises vs the institutional builders shaping what gets built: cloud platforms, states, standards ecosystems.
- Technology as strategic instrument: How states wield emerging technologies to claim status, assert sovereignty, and construct strategic narratives.
I ground these arguments in network-based empirical methods such as ecosystem mapping, institutional network analysis, and inferential models, and translate them into academic research as well as policy-facing outputs that make technical dynamics actionable for decision-makers.
The Research tab provides details of the projects I'm currently working on.