Core Research Areas

Defense: the use of drones for counterterrorism; cyber security, cyber escalation

Health: research, development, and uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine; the use of scientific models in projecting virus transmission

Democracy: language models that amplify fake voices and distort democratic representation; online misinformation by foreign actors meddling in the domestic electoral process

Space: the role of foreign policy on US and international outer space programs; the reasons and implications of privatization in space programs

Research-in-Progress

Julie George, Gloria Cai, Keyi Ding, Noah Watson, and Sarah Kreps, “(Mis)Information on Digital Platforms: Lessons from Twitter and Sina Weibo in COVID-19 Pandemic,” under review at Public Health

Olaf Willner, Jakob Richi, Elliott Ash, and Sarah Kreps, “Natural Language Models as Political Communicators,” under review at the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media