Excited to share that I officially graduated from my MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford this past weekend (although I completed it last August!)
I was incredibly grateful to receive a distinction on my thesis, which explored how we think about and govern AI under the EU AI Act, and I had the opportunity to present some of this work at PAIRS - Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium in the India AI Impact Summit earlier this year in February. Being back in Oxford this weekend reminded me how much I learned in just one year. I tried rowing for the first time, sharpened my R and Python skills and wrote about agency in the AI/social media era and the implications of platform bans. It was a year that pushed me intellectually, and gave me friendships and memories that will last a lifetime.
A huge thank you to my two amazing supervisors, Fabian Stephany and Johann Laux, who challenged me to approach my thesis from interdisciplinary perspectives. Together, they created a space where I could bridge law, policy, and computational social science in ways that have fundamentally shaped how I think about AI governance today. I'm incredibly grateful for their guidance, support, and patience throughout the year.
Since completing the MSc, I’ve been lucky to work with some amazing organisations and people, including Dr Eleanor Drage, Tomasz Hollanek, PhD, and more recently Beryl Pong at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. I’ve been researching how we might reimagine AI regulation and AI ethics, specifically looking at high-risk AI applications under the EU AI Act, cross-cultural approaches to AI ethics, and the lived psychological dimensions of drone warfare.
For the past couple of months, I’ve also been working as an AI Research Fellow with Reframe Venture, a non-profit that works with over 500 VCs and 110 LPs to advance responsible investment practices. My work focuses on sector-specific AI risks in education and healthcare, helping investors build expertise and better evaluate and respond to emerging AI challenges. Alongside this, I’ve been conducting research with the amazing team at Digital Trust Council, where we’ve been exploring what a certification framework for trustworthy AI could look like in practice.
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how we understand AI risk from political, social, and institutional perspectives, and I feel incredibly lucky to be able to work across academia and industry with such thoughtful and passionate people. Lots of exciting research and papers coming soon! If you want to chat about AI regulation/ethics/safety, my DMs are open!
