I'm an independent AI researcher and consultant specializing in how artificial intelligence is transforming information threats — and how to defend against them.

My PhD, from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, is in artificial intelligence. My research and publication record focuses on using AI to defend against information threats — probing what language models actually understand, and applying that to detecting manipulation and deception at scale.

My current work sits at the sharp edge of that problem. I'm contributing to a robust methodology for detecting AI-assisted grooming behavior, tracking how AI is changing the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) behind information threats, and examining how kill-chain analysis frameworks need to be rethought for an AI-augmented threat landscape. I'm also researching the cutting-edge capabilities being developed by adversaries, by studying the AI research literature and patents coming out of known threat actors.

I've also built AI systems for real deployments: contributing the AI component to Freedom House's China Dissent Monitor, which identifies offline protests inside the People's Republic of China from Weibo posts, and building a product for researchers connected to the Ukraine government analysing PRC-linked information threats to Ukraine.

That work grew out of several years in the NGO sector, where I held roles as Research Scientist, Research Lead, and eventually Deputy CEO at Doublethink Lab, overseeing delivery of research projects exceeding USD $10M in funding from partners including the European Union, Open Society Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UK FCDO, Global Affairs Canada, the Global Engagement Center, Freedom House, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and Internews. That work was recognised as world-leading in the region and featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Le Monde.

A core part of my time at Doublethink Lab was spent building coalitions across the Indo-Pacific — connecting civil society, academia, and government around shared frameworks, methodologies, and data formats — enabling intelligence sharing and coordinated regional response. Having done too many "autopsies" on information threats, I've come to see effective response and mitigation, with coordination at its core, as the more urgent challenge now.

I'm now independent, bringing that research and delivery experience to AI-focused research and advisory work on information threats.