Kyuri Park joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) as a postdoctoral fellow during the 2022-2023 academic year. Kyuri was also a non-resident fellow of the US-Korea NextGen Scholars Program (2022-2024), an initiative by CSIS Korea Chair and USC Korean Studies Institute. 

Her research lies primarily in international security and cooperation, with a regional focus on the Asia-Pacific. Kyuri is particularly interested in examining the variations in the pattern of security cooperation between great powers and secondary states in the Asia-Pacific (1970-present) and drawing out the implications for regional order, stability, and the US grand strategy. By shedding light on joint military exercises in the region, during her time at Shorenstein APARC, Kyuri worked on her book project which explores how East Asian secondary states are responding to the rise of China, and why they are responding the way they are.  

Kyuri’s work on South Korea’s middle power diplomacy has appeared in International Politics. Previously, Kyuri was a US-Asia Grand Strategy predoctoral fellow at the USC Korean Studies Institute. She also served as a co-contributing author of ‘Korea-Japan relations’ in Comparative Connections published by Pacific Forum.  

Kyuri received her Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC), M.A. in Asian Studies at Georgetown University, and B.A. in International Studies at Ewha Womans University. 

Lieutenant Colonel Faith Posey joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) as Visiting Scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year. Lt. Col. Posey currently serves in the United States Air Force. While at APARC, she conducted research regarding security and international relations issues in the Asia-Pacific.

Ben Rosenthal is a Research Assistant at the Cyber Policy Center. A recent graduate of Harvard College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Ben received his A.B. in Linguistics and Statistics and concurrent M.A. in Linguistics. His thesis explored associations between phonological features and predicted emotions in text-based data. While at Harvard, he was also active as a student leader in myriad organizations including as manager for the NCAA Division I water polo team and as producer for several on-campus arts companies, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club and the Lowell House Opera Society. During the 2020 presidential election, Ben worked as a voter protection associate for Biden’s Florida campaign, ensuring equitable access for voters and developing real-time improvements to campaign infrastructure. He is originally from Miami, FL.

Or (Ori) Rabinowitz, (PhD), a Chevening scholar, is an associate professor at the International Relations Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. During the academic year of 2022-2023 she will hold the post of visiting associate professor at Stanford’s CISAC. Her research interests include nuclear proliferation, intelligence studies, and Israeli American relations. Her book, Bargaining on Nuclear Tests was published in April 2014 by Oxford University Press. Her studies were published leading academic journals, including International Security, Journal of Strategic Studies, and International History Review, as well as op-eds and blog posts in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy and Ha’aretz. She holds a PhD degree awarded by the War Studies Department of King’s College London, an MA degree in Security Studies and an LLB degree in Law, both from Tel-Aviv University. She was awarded numerous awards and grants, including two personal research grants by the Israeli Science Foundation and in 2020 was a member of the Young Academic forum of the Israeli Academy for Sciences and Humanities.  

Pallabi Mitra Chakrabarti serves as the Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at CMCI, a Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. In this role, she delivers the highest quality solutions related to science, technology, and policy. 

Prior to joining CMCI, Pallabi held positions at multiple Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories and federal government contracting organizations since 2016. She began her career supporting the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), DOE’s semi-autonomous agency tasked with enhancing national security. During this time, she led the exploration of ionizing radiation technologies and spearheaded the development of innovative alternative technologies to radiological materials. 

Most recently, Pallabi served as a subject matter expert at Sandia National Laboratories. She led activities related to the security of radioactive materials across a diverse set of partners, including international and domestic government agencies, other U.S. government laboratories, NGOs, industry, and academia. She also played an instrumental role in developing and designing research studies that identified and analyzed information on radiation technologies used in the treatment of cancer. 

In parallel with her professional endeavors, Pallabi has pursued scholarly work at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where she continues to research how to bridge the gap between global health and radiological security. Pallabi received a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2014, and she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 2013.