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 Policy Researcher at the Open Molecular Software Foundation, a Fellow at the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, and an ELBI Fellow. I have also worked on AI policy at The Future Society, taught English at KIMEP University through the Princeton in Asia program, conducted research on North Korea's nuclear program with the former Economic Advisor to President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, and had a brief but unforgettable foray into acting in Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella while living in Almaty. I speak English (native), Russian (advanced), and a bit of Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese.

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.