Jeffrey Ding

Greetings! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, sponsored by Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

I research great power competition and cooperation in emerging technologies, the political economy of innovation, and China's scientific and technological capabilities. My book, Technology and the Rise of Great Powers (Princeton University Press, 2024), investigates how past technological revolutions influenced the rise and fall of great powers, with implications for U.S.-China competition in emerging technologies like AI. Other work has been published or is forthcoming in European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of International Security, Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, and Security Studies, and my research has been cited in The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and other outlets.

I received my PhD in 2021 from the University of Oxford, where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Previously, I worked as a researcher for Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and Oxford's Centre for the Governance of AI. Growing up in Iowa City, I became a lifelong Hawkeye fan and attended the University of Iowa for my undergraduate studies.