Hume Seminar Series: Information in International and National Security
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom; Link provided upon registration
Open to students, faculty, and alumni from Virginia Tech and all other IC CAE institutions and CCI affiliations.
About the Event
Clara H. Suong will discuss her research as Deputy Director of Tech4Humanity Lab. Her research lies in the intersection of the politics of information and International and National Security and employs computational, formal, and experimental methods, including Natural Language Processing and game theory. She will discuss how information and communicative acts affect security politics at the domestic-international nexus.
This event is co-hosted by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Southwest Virginia region.
About the Speaker
Clara H. Suong is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Deputy Director of the Tech4Humanity Lab for Computational Social Science Initiatives at Virginia Tech. She is also a research associate at Virginia Tech’s Center for Humanities for 2020-2021.
Suong studies the role of information in international relations, using computational, formal, and experimental methods. She received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego and completed postdoctoral training at New York University and Duke University. Her work has received support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense.