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. I enjoy thinking through the complexities of embedding new technologies in existing critical infrastructure, policy, and strategic environments, and working out what that process demands of both technical and policy communities.

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.

Book Project: Qubits & Conflicts: The Geopolitics of the Quantum Internet (working title). The book traces how the quantum internet is being built, by whom, and what that means for global power and security.
Teaching (Spring 2026): INTA 4050, International Affairs and Technology Policy Making (Georgia Tech).
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