
What our fellows have been working on (April 2024)
We’re very excited to share a sample of what our fellows and alumni have worked on and achieved during their fellowship placements since our previous update in September, including:
- Yemisi Ajumobi, as a bio fellow at the Atlantic Council, published a report on the potential of metagenomics for pandemic prevention in a warming world.
- Aurelia Attal-Juncqua, as a bio fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, published papers on building a strong and safe future for the US bioeconomy.
- Madeleine Chang, as a space fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), co-authored CSIS’ Space Threat Assessment report and joined the advisory board of CyberSat, a space security conference.
- Lisa Einstein, while serving as an AI fellow at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, gave a keynote address at the annual Women in Cybersecurity conference on “Embodying Trustworthiness: Lessons from AI for Women in Cybersecurity” and spoke at the Government Innovation, Strategy, and Technology conference on the responsible use of AI in government.
- Ella Guest, as an AI fellow at RAND Corporation, authored a policy report comparing biological risks from large language models against a baseline of traditional internet search, and published an accompanying methodological primer on red-teaming AI models. She also recently joined RAND full-time as Adjunct Staff.
- Nils Justen and Dev Basumallik, as bio fellows working with the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB), contributed to the commission’s interim report.
- Max Katz, while working as an AI fellow with Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), spoke at a panel on how technical researchers can support policymakers at the NeurIPS Conference and was profiled in an Argonne National Laboratory publication. He also transitioned to full-time legislative staff in Sen. Heinrich’s office.
- Joseph Keller, during his fellowship at the Brookings Institution, co-taught “The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence” at Georgetown University throughout spring 2024, wrote an op-ed for The Hill on how Congress can champion quantum computing, and published a report on balancing climate justice with AI.
- Ben Snyder, while working as a bio fellow at the Pandemic & Biosecurity Program of Texas A&M University’s Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, helped organize a two-day summit on health in the border region and supported Dr. Gerald Parker with his testimony on biosafety to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in the House Oversight Committee.
- Siddarth Srinivasan, as an AI fellow at the Brookings Institution, published a report on the promises and limitations of AI watermarking.
- Jack Titus, as an AI fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, published a report with AI policy recommendations in health, education, and labor. He also helped launch a legislative challenge to gather ideas for science and technology policy, as well as trackers of AI-related provisions in FY24 appropriations bills and the National Defense Authorization Act.
- Thomas Woodside and Matthew Burtell, as AI fellows at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, have published a series of explainers on large language models. Thomas also wrote a piece on why Congress should codify reporting requirements for advanced AI systems.
- Kelvin Yu, while working as an AI fellow on the House Science Committee majority staff, launched “Levers for Progress”, a website collecting ideas to accelerate science and technology, with contributions from other Horizon fellows Di Cooke, Willy Chertman, and Joel Burke.
Additionally, Horizon alumni have worked on a number of exciting projects in public service roles after their fellowship:
- Krystal Jackson, who was an AI fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology before transitioning to an analyst role at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security agency, published a policy report on risk management standards for AI foundation models for UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.
- Shayna Korol, who served as a bio fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, where she continued working in a full-time capacity, contributed to a white paper on discerning the source of biological risks and was recently named an Editorial Fellow at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
- Zeena Nisar, who served as a bio fellow with the House Foreign Affairs Committee majority staff, was selected as an Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative Fellow by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and also contributed to the NSCEB’s interim report.
- Hadrien Pouget, who was an AI fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he received a full-time offer after the fellowship, spoke on The Lawfare Podcast on AI safety alongside Tino Cuellar, Carnegie’s President, published a report on AI and product safety standards in the EU AI Act, and moderated an event on advancing a transatlantic AI agenda.
- Michael Yang, who worked as an AI fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology’s equity and civic tech team, entered a traineeship program at the Government Accountability Office where he contributed to a report on disclosure requirements and training to enhance research security.
We’re proud of the work that all of our fellows and alumni have undertaken so far. We are also grateful to the host organizations who have provided our fellows with opportunities and support as they build their public service careers.
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Our 2023 fellowship cohort will soon be joined by our incoming 2024 fellows, who have recently wrapped up their training and are currently seeking placements to start this summer.