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Kunhan Li
Kunhan Li is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University with the GEOCLOUD project. His research focuses on comparative policy analysis, investigating how governments in Europe, East and Southeast Asia, the U.S., and China shape cloud infrastructures through policy interventions, and assessing their implications for digital sovereignty and the global geography of computation. Kunhan holds…
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Anniki Mikelsaar
Anniki Mikelsaar is a Dame Stephanie Shirley Scholar and DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Her research, supervised by Carl-Benedikt Frey and Vili Lehdonvirta, examines the governance and security of digital infrastructure with a focus on submarine cable networks. Anniki’s work on network infrastructure security bridges academic, policy, and professional contexts.…
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Ana Paula
Ana Paula is a doctoral researcher working on the regulation of artificial intelligence. In specific, the European Union’s AI Act. Her research aims to bridge the gap between legal provisions and computer science practices with a view to responsible AI. In her work, Ana Paula has conducted interdisciplinary analyses of the global AI policy frameworks, AI Act, regulatory sandboxes, and efforts…
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Kaarlo Liukkonen
Kaarlo Liukkonen is a project worker in the Digital Economic Security Lab (DIESL). He wrote his master’s thesis Competing clouds: U.S.-China tech rivalry and the geoeconomic turn: The geoeconomic turn and its implications on cloud computing and U.S. – China rivalry under the supervision of Prof. Vili Lehdonvirta. Before joining DIESL Kaarlo worked as a…
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Otto Kässi
Dr Otto Kässi is a research fellow at Aalto University and the GEOCLOUD project. His work combines computational approaches with traditional social statistics to study the economic geography of cloud computing. He focuses on how government policies shape these technologies and how, together, they affect countries, firms, and individuals globally. Otto’s research interests include labour…
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Zoe Hawkins
Zoe Hawkins is Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Zoe is a contributor to DIESL Lab’s Political Geography of AI Infrastructure project, and her research explores the geopolitical power of big tech companies.Zoe is currently Head of Policy Design at the Tech Policy Design Centre, Australian National University and a research…
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford