Chasen Jeffries

PhD Student, Research Assistant, and Teaching Assistant at Claremont Graduate University.

Email Address: Chasen.Jeffries@cgu.edu

Chasen Jeffries is a Ph.D. student in International Political Economy and Computational Analytics at Claremont Graduate University. He employs both traditional quantitative and qualitative methodologies, as well as cutting-edge techniques like Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) and Machine Learning (ML), in his research. His research interests focus on Intellectual Property Protections, China's Political Economy, and The Geopolitics of Soft Power.

Zeyad Kelani

A postdoctoral research associate at the Donald Bern School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). 

Email: kelanizeyad@gmail.com

Website: zeyadkelani.xyz

With a wealth of experience in the areas of Public Policy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications, and Political Strategy, Dr. Zeyad Elkelani builds and deploys AI, and predictive models, using online/offline data.  Dr. Elkelani is currently leading AI-driven research projects on Spatial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies at the Donald Bern School of Information and Computer Sciences at UCI. Prior to this position, he was a senior Data Science fellow at the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab at Claremont McKenna College.  Elsewhere, he is a faculty member in his home country at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, Egypt.

His research interests include political strategy, political economy, decision theory, AI, and computational and mathematical modeling. 

Dr. ElKelani is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) grant, a former United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) fellow and was previously an honorary Ambassador for the distinguished Shafik Gabr foundation East-West initiative. 

He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Analytics and World Politics from Claremont Graduate University. He owns a master's degree in applied data science from Claremont Graduate University in addition to another master's in political science from the American University in Cairo.  He has co-authored publications on political economy, middle east strategy, and AI. 

Yuzhu Zeng

PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at Claremont Graduate University

Email: yuzhu.zeng@cgu.edu

Yuzhu Zeng is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Claremont Graduate University and TRC research fellow, focusing on International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her dissertation discusses how political capacity affects the migration trajectory at the subnational level in China. Her research interests include governments' political capacity, relations between the U.S. and China, the impact of inequality in the developing world, and demographics within a subnational framework. She obtained an MBA from the University of La Verne and received her M.A in International Studies from Claremont Graduate University.

Glenn-Iain Steinback

PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at Claremont Graduate University

Email: Glenn-iain.steinback@cgu.edu

Glenn-Iain Steinback is a PhD. Candidate in Political Science at Claremont Graduate University, Department of International Studies, and research fellow at the TransResearch Consortium focusing on comparative political institutions and international relations. His dissertation research is centered on developing a cross-national quantitative proxy measure for unobserved levels of political corruption, using observable population level socio-economic and political factors. Beyond this his other research interests include the application of novel quantitative methods to political science research, and efforts to quantify the international power of nuclear arsenals using simulation techniques. Glenn-Iain has prior experience in software and simulation design and holds an M.A in interdisciplinary Social Science from CSU San Bernardino, and an M.A in international Studies from Claremont Graduate University.

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Alex Nations

Master's Candidate and Research Assistant at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Email: acallowaynation@miis.edu

Alexandra Calloway-Nation is an International Trade and Economic Diplomacy graduate student at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Her research is focused on East Asian economic development and regional integration, particularly the rise of China and its influence on the region. She received her B.A. in International Development: East Asia and the Middle East from Portland State University and has studied at Tianjin Foreign Studies University.

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra0calloway0nation/