Author: Halyna Padalko

Dr. Halyna Padalko is a multidisciplinary researcher specializing in strategic communication, propaganda, disinformation, and the use of AI tools in these domains, as well as their intersection with policy. She holds a master’s degree in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo and a PhD in Computer Science from the Kharkiv Aviation Institute, Ukraine’s national aerospace university. Halyna currently holds a Fulbright fellowship researching information manipulation at the MIT Center for International Studies. She is also a research fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and was previously a doctoral fellow in the Digital Policy Hub at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a virtual residency at the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta). In addition, she has completed an internship at the European Parliament and a non-residential fellowship with the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. Dr. Padalko contributes op-eds on information security and disinformation in Canada to The Hill Times and The Globe and Mail. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed computer science and policy-oriented journals.