Emelia Probasco

Emelia Probasco is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she works on the military applications of artificial intelligence.
Prior to joining CSET, she was the Chief Communications Officer and Communications Department Head at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), the nation’s largest University Affiliated Research Center, leading technical and institutional communications to support and drive APL’s strategic vision. Prior to APL, Probasco served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, deploying twice to the Indo-Pacific. She also served in the Pentagon as the speechwriter to the Chief of Naval Operations and at the U.S. Naval Academy as an instructor in political science.
Probasco has masters’ degrees in forced migration and economic and social history from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a degree in political science from the U.S. Naval Academy. She currently serves as the Vice President of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.