My interests span the governance and ethics of emerging (bio)technology.

Presently, I am a Senior Policy Advisor for Biotechnology at the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and a Visiting Scholar at the Gray Lab at JHU ChemBE.

Before that, I was a Biosecurity Fellow at Rosetta Commons, a consortium leading the development of biomolecular modeling and design software, a Policy Researcher at the Open Molecular Software Foundation, a Fellow at the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, and an ELBI Fellow.

I received an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University through the Schwarzman Scholars program and a BA in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology from Whitman College.

My past employment includes AI policy research at The Future Society, a translational cancer therapeutics internship at the biotech SeaGen, working as an English instructor in Almaty through Princeton in Asia, and researching North Korea's nuclear program with the former Economic Advisor to the President of Kazakhstan. I also had a brief but unforgettable foray into acting in Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella with an English-speaking community theater while living in Almaty. I speak English (native), Russian (advanced), and a bit of Mandarin Chinese (pre-intermediate).

Contact: me[aт]samuelmcurtis[doт]com.