I am a candidate for the DPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall) under the supervision of Prof Daniel McDermott. I am also a Research Associate at the Cambridge Initiative for Peace Settlements (CIPS) at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, where I work in collaboration with Prof Marc Weller and Dr Mark Retter.
My current academic research lies at the intersection between jurisprudence, political theory, and the philosophy of technology and examines how predictive policing interacts with liberal accounts of political subjectivity. On the jurisprudential side, my work analyses the legal and political controversy surrounding existing and forthcoming deployments of predictive policing technologies in liberal democracies such as the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany. On the political theoretical side, I explore how predictive policing as a governing strategy clashes with liberal accounts of individualism and privacy. Finally, on the philosophy of technology side, I examine the social and political theory which informs dominant models of predictive policing, with particular emphasis on the political implications of advancements in machine learning and AI for liberal democracies.
My professional work with CIPS centers on international law and ongoing conflicts. I have worked in collaboration with the RAND Corporation on international consultation for the ongoing conflict in Palestine. I personally prepared in-depth analysis on government and private sector plans for the ‘day after’ for an international group of diplomats, incumbent and former government officials, academics, and civil society figures. These have included, amongst others, former United Nations Undersecretaries, United States Army officers, League of Arab States diplomats, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation officials, royal family members of the Gulf states, European Union Special Representatives, legal experts and academics from Palestine, and former Israeli military officials. I have also conducted legal research for the ongoing civil war in Myanmar.
Prior to starting my DPhil, I completed my MPhil in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge (Hughes Hall). My MPhil research was on the appropriation of Carl Schmitt’s political thought by left-wing thinkers to theorise about the environmental crisis. Prior to that, I completed my BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford (Pembroke College) where I wrote an undergraduate thesis on the influence of the legal thought of Carl Schmitt in the People’s Republic of China and the passage of the National Security Law in Hong Kong.