Dennis Murphy is a Research Associate at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research examines how frontier AI may shape the military balance between the United States and China, with particular attention to competition over the technical inputs to AI development, such as compute, and the socio-technical systems that guide their use.
Dennis is a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech working with Professor Jon Lindsay and an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation, where he was previously a summer associate. His prior work focused on the intersection of emerging technologies, AI, China studies, history, and strategic competition. He holds master's degrees in strategic studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS and in Chinese politics and foreign policy from Tsinghua University. He is also a Hans J. Morgenthau Predoctoral Fellow at Notre Dame’s International Security Center and a Graduate Student Research Fellow at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
