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•Investigated domains and social media accounts on X, Facebook, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, andVKontakte conducting foreign malign influence operations or cybercrime by utilizing cyber threatintelligence tools including VirusTotal, Whoxy, Censys, URLScan, Ahrefs Backlink Checker, InformationLaundromat, BuiltWith, Google Dorks, and OSINT Industries to evaluate diverse threat actors’ evolvingtactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).•Co-authored policy brief assessing the difficulties in effectively enforcing bans of Russian state media content on social media and recommended technical mitigations such as perceptual hashing and text-detection methods.•Conducted primary- and secondary-source preparatory research, produced outlines for, and contributed to September and October reports on foreign malign influence operations targeting the U.S. public ahead of the 2024 U.S. elections.

Conducted and published research in peer- and editor-reviewed journals pertaining to the following areas:•Russia's hybrid warfare and information operations in Ukraine, Georgia, and the Nordic states.•The nexus between foreign disinformation campaigns, the proliferation of conspiracy theories, and online radicalization among far-right extremist groups in the United States. •Russia and Iran's use of proxy hacker groups to conduct espionage, DDoS and ransomware attacks, fraud, and other offensive cyber operations against critical military and industrial infrastructure, government agencies, defense contractors, and financial institutions.•Russia and China's utilization of economic statecraft, pipeline diplomacy, and debt trap diplomacy in Eastern and Northern Europe and Central Asia to further goals for regional hegemony in energy and trade.

Master Of Science - Ms, Global Studies And International Relations, 3.98/4.0 Gpa

Thesis: "From Kabul to Kyiv: Russia's Unconventional Warfare from the Soviet-Afghan War to the Russo-Ukrainian War" (32,697 words/120 pages)

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History, Distinction, 3.77/4.0 Gpa