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Research Assistants

Zach Grouev

Zach Grouev

Zach Grouev is a third-year student at Harvard Law School; as a Research Assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, he provides research support for the War Algorithms project.

Jiahui Huang

Jiahui Huang

Jiahui Huang is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School, and worked as a research assistant for PILAC in Fall 2014. 

Thejasa Jayachandran

Thejasa Jayachandran

Thejasa Jayachandran is a first-year law student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).

Simon Jerome

Simon Jerome

Simon Jerome is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. As a Research Assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, he currently provides research support for the War Algorithms project.

Joshua Kestin

Joshua Kestin

Joshua Kestin is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. As a research assistant at PILAC, he works on the mapping exercise on accountability, autonomous (weapons) systems, and international law pertaining to armed conflict.

Katie King

Katie King

Katie King is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. She works as a Research Assistant for PILAC’s Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project.

Yi Seul Kim

Yi Seul Kim

Yi Seul Kim is an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School. At PILAC, Kim conducts research on extraterritorial lethal-force operations, covering areas in East Asia and the Middle East. 

Samantha Lint

Samantha Lint

Samantha Lint is a first-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant for the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).

Yang Liu

Yang Liu

Yang Liu is an LL.M. student at the Harvard Law School and, as of fall 2017, a Research Assistant at the HLS PILAC.

Lloyd Lyall

Lloyd Lyall

Lloyd Lyall is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and has been a Research Assistant for the HLS Program on International Law and Armed conflict since the fall of 2022.

Chris Mirasola

Chris Mirasola

Chris Mirasola is in his first year of a joint JD/MPP program between the Harvard Law School and Kennedy School of Government. At PILAC, Chris is a Research Assistant for Professor Michael N. Schmitt, conducting research concerning targeting of war-sustaining capacities. 

Ana Leticia Magini

Ana Leticia Magini

Ana Leticia Magini is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge currently undertaking an exchange program at Harvard Law School. As a Research Assistant of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC), Ana contributes to a research initiative on the protection of the environment in relation to international peace and security.

Fatima Mehmood

Fatima Mehmood

As a Research Assistant at HLS PILAC, Fatima Mehmood contributes independent research to the “Council of Advisers on the Application of the Rome Statute to Cyberwarfare,” an initiative of the Missions of Liechtenstein, Spain, Belgium, and Estonia to the United Nations.

Ariane Moss

Ariane Moss

A second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School, Ariane Moss is also a Research Assistant at PILAC, she supports the Tallinn 2.0 Project, which focuses on the application of international law to cyber operations.

Lauren Newby

Lauren Newby

Lauren Newby is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and has been a Research Assistant for the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC) since September 2023.

Will Ossoff

Will Ossoff

Will Ossoff is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and a Research Assistant for the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC).

Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni

Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni

Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni is currently a third-year law student and is conducting research in support of PILAC’s Commanding Knowledge project. 

Ji Soo Janet Park

Ji Soo Janet Park

Ji Soo Janet Park is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School and has been a Research Assistant for HLS PILAC since October 2022.

Danae Paterson

Danae Paterson

Danae Paterson is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. She has been a research assistant at PILAC since December 2014, contributing to its case studies portfolio.

Sasha Pippenger

Sasha Pippenger

In the fall of 2014, Sasha Pippenger became a research assistant at PILAC, focusing on the Goals of War and War’s End Project.