Benjamin Angel Chang served as the inaugural Andrew W. Marshall Fellow and spent over a year in residence at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Currently, Ben is an adjunct political scientist at RAND and a resident at Constellation focusing on the national security implications of artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from MIT, where he studied AI’s impact on the U.S.-China military balance. He was previously a senior analyst at the Long Term Strategy Group, and received his A.B. (summa cum laude) from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Team Category: Fellows & Scholars
Yelena Biberman
Dr. Yelena Biberman is an associate professor of political science at Skidmore College and a recognized expert on great-power competition, proxy warfare, emerging and disruptive technologies, and security in South Asia. She is the author of Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India, a highly regarded analysis of state alliances with armed nonstate actors, and the forthcoming Genetic Superpower: International Rivalry in the Age of Weaponizable Biotechnology (Oxford University Press). Her research examines how artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and other frontier technologies are transforming international security. Dr. Biberman’s work has appeared in leading academic journals and policy outlets, including Foreign Policy, Military Review, and the Washington Post. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Harvard University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University. She is an affiliate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and her honors include the Fulbright and Wilson China Fellowships, as well as past appointments at the Modern War Institute at West Point and the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. She is currently developing a strategic forecasting initiative with her former students that connects human expertise and agentic AI.
Robert “Jake” Bebber
Hudson Institute Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Commander Robert “Jake” Bebber is a Cryptologic Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy. He is currently the Cyber Operations Branch Head for U.S. Special Operations Command. Recently he was Executive Officer for Information Warfare Training Command Corry Station, and Cryptologic Resource Coordinator for Carrier Strike Group 12. Previously he served at U.S. Cyber Command, 7th Fleet, Submarine Direct Support Officer, the National Security Operations Center, and at Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost in Afghanistan. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Central Florida. He is supported by his wife, Dana, and their two boys, Vincent and Zachary.