I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCLA and the Associate Director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. My research focuses on the causes and consequences of violent conflict. My CV can be found here.

I also work on conflict mitigation policy. During the 2024-2025 academic year I served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in the Global Department for Social Development at the World Bank. I am also currently engaged in advisory work for a frontier artificial intelligence company as it navigates the risks of catastrophic misuse by violent actors.

Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University and a Visiting Fellow in the Program in American Grand Strategy at Duke University. I received my PhD from Harvard University, where I was awarded the Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize for “the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace.”