Chee Hae Chung
Chee Hae Chung is a Technology and Geopolitics Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research examines how emerging digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and digital platforms, reshape political power, institutions, and governance. Her work addresses AI ethics, regulatory governance, digital platform politics, the quasi-sovereign power of Big Tech firms, and the shifting dynamics of the global political economy. She pursues research agendas across critical domains of AI development and deployment, including digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, energy, and the environment, raising theoretical questions and building practical frameworks. She has published in Policy Studies Journal, Technology and Regulation, the Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance, the Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, and California Management Review Insight.
Chee Hae earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Seoul National University and her B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Yonsei University. Her dissertation received the Korean Political Science Association's 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and her research on justice in the age of AI was recognized with the Hakbong Prize from Seoul National University School of Law.
Prior to her current role, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL) and the Computational Social Science (CSS) Lab at Purdue University, an affiliate of Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Seoul National University's Center for Intelligent Society and Policy (CISP). Earlier in her career, she gained professional experience across the private and public sectors, working as a management consultant at global firms including Deloitte Consulting and Arthur D. Little, and at the Presidential Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea. This combination of academic, private sector, and government experience shapes her interdisciplinary approach to technology policy and governance.