Melissa Deng was a Student Research Assistant at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) from Fall 2020 to May 2023, where she worked on the CyberAI Project. In this role, she assisted senior scholars with research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Melissa previously worked as an editorial assistant at CSET, serving in a key capacity that ensured smooth final preparation of written publications. Melissa was the co-author of the March 2023 issue brief “Examining Singapore’s AI Progress.” She holds a B.S. from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and is an incoming J.D. candidate at the UCLA School of Law.