Emelia “Emmy” Probasco is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she leads research on international military applications of artificial intelligence (AI). A leading expert in AI policy and national security technology, her research focuses on AI-enabled decision support, international defense applications of AI, the role of commercial technology firms in conflicts, and responsible AI adoption in national security contexts.
Emmy’s work has been featured in major national and international outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Foreign Affairs, Fox News, and the BBC.
Before joining CSET, Emmy served as Chief Communications Officer and Communications Department Head at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), directing technical and strategic communications in support of APL’s institutional mission. Prior to APL, she served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, completing two deployments to the Indo-Pacific region. She also held positions at the Pentagon as speechwriter to the Chief of Naval Operations and at the U.S. Naval Academy as a political science instructor.
Emmy holds degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy and Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.