Research

My academic work aims to protect ourselves from malicious and unintended technology risks.

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For my PhD, I focused on why people fall for online scams. Through psychological experiments and user studies, I developed an adversarial training method and novel e-mail features that improved people's ability to detect phishing attacks.

Now, as a Senior Research Fellow in the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at University College London (UCL), I research how new technologies could be exploited or misused in the near future. In recent projects, I have been looking into social robots, climate change mitigation tools, and brain-computer interfaces. I am fascinated with questions around how such emerging technologies may drive us to redefine crime, and even more fundamentally, how they redefine humanity. By working with industry leaders and policymakers, this endeavour aims to help shape a safer future.