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Welcome! I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (CD2I) of the Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I am also a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy's International Research Working Group. I hold a PhD in political science from Cornell University and have previously worked as a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen. My research has focused on the changing dynamics of contentious politics with the emergence of Big Tech dominance in Southeast Asia.
At CD2I, I lead a research project on resistance to digital repression in the Global South, by examining cross-platform authoritarian repression, dissidents' resilience capacity, and drivers of impactful platform advocacy in Southeast Asia. Adopting an engaged mixed methods research agenda, my work combines social media analysis with in-depth observation of digital rights advocates and marginalised activists in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia during 2020-2024. My academic research and book review are published at International Affairs, Big Data & Society, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Politics & Policy, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, and Open Research Europe. My policy recommendations have been disseminated to hundreds of development partners at Myanmar Digital Rights Forum, Facebook, the United Nations, European Union, Oxfam, etc. Other public scholarship works on Burmese politics have appeared in an edited book by the Torino World Affairs Institute and more than 100 media outlets and research blogs, including The Washington Post, Brookings Institution, Al Jazeera, AP, New Mandala, etc. |