Kate Pundyk researches technologies and geopolitics, with an expertise in conflict and mass atrocity settings.

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Kate's interest in technology policy began when she took her first cybersecurity course at MIT in 2017. From there she joined engineering labs and start-ups, which sparked a decade of building new organizations focused on the ways technology shapes politics at home and abroad. She helped establish the Yale Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era program in 2020. In 2022, she built the investigative workflow for the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab to use open source and satellite data to investigate alleged war crimes in Ukraine. In 2023, Kate co-authored a report advising the UK Ministry of Defence on the ethical integration of quantum technologies in defence. As a recovering government staffer, she has advised policymakers on technology governance, including members of Congress (USA), government officials in the UK and Canada, as well as, internationally within the Commonwealth.

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Kate has held research positions at Yale Law School, Berkeley School of Law, Oxford Internet Institute, and Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research has been published internationally, including in Nature and OpinioJuris.

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She holds a BA (summa cum laude) from Yale and completed her graduate studies with distinction at the Oxford Internet Institute as a Rhodes Scholar. She is currently expanding her skillset in the bilingual (English/French) law programme at McGill, focused on AI and human rights due diligence.