Halyna Padalko

Halyna Padalko is a multidisciplinary researcher specializing in strategic communication, propaganda, disinformation, as well as the use of AI tools in these domains and 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 National Aerospace University, Kharkiv Aviation Institute. At MIT, Padalko is completing her Fulbright fellowship, researching information manipulation at the MIT Center for International Studies. She has developed and is co-teaching an MIT course on AI and propaganda with professor Elizabeth Wood. Padalko is a research fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada. She completed a doctoral fellowship at the Digital Policy Hub at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and held a virtual residency at the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. Padalko also completed an internship at the European Parliament and a non-residential fellowship with the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. Her research has been published in top-tier computer science and policy-oriented peer-reviewed journals.