andreas kuehn
senior fellow
Dr. Andreas kuehn
HIGHLIGHTS*
2016-2020: Senior Program Associate, EastWest Institute.
2016-2017: Adjunct Researcher, National Security Research Division, RAND Corporation.
2014-2016: Predoctoral Cybersecurity Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University.
Dr. Andreas Kuehn is a Senior Fellow at ORF America where he leads research on international cybersecurity cooperation within ORF America’s Cyberspace Cooperation Initiative. His work focuses on the new risks and challenges in international security at the intersection of emerging technology, cybersecurity, and technology governance.
His recent report Weathering Tech Nationalism: A Security and Trustworthiness Framework to Manage Cyber Supply Chain Risk examines trustworthiness and security in global ICT supply chains and outlines a framework to build trust and manage third-party risk. Other areas of recent work include: the implications of U.S. cyber strategy on international cybersecurity, the cybersecurity cooperation paradox, supply chain security capacity building, smart cities as sociotechnical systems, and cyberinsurance. Dr. Kuehn also organizes and participates in international convenings, Track-2 meetings and working groups to foster trust through dialogue and exchange.
Prior to joining ORF America, Dr. Kuehn was a Senior Program Associate at the EastWest Institute, where he led the development of EWI’s breakthrough group efforts and worked on U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China cybersecurity issues. Before that, he was a Cybersecurity Fellow at Stanford University and an adjunct researcher at RAND Corporation.
Dr. Kuehn is affiliated with Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation in Palo Alto, CA and the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He received his M.Sc. in Information Systems from the University of Zurich and a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University. He is originally from Zurich, Switzerland.
publications
By Andreas Kuehn
Technology alliances are emerging as the decisive arena of AI competition, where leadership depends less on model breakthroughs than on the global diffusion of trusted infrastructure, standards, and ecosystems.
Special Report
Produced by the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) and ORF America
By Linda Nhon and Andreas Kuehn
Trump 2.0’s overall policy directions in critical and emerging technologies will likely hew to common expectations. The details, however, of what technologies the new administration will prioritise and how actions, such as tariffs and export controls for example, will affect the United States’ (US) innovation and technology leadership remains underexplored.
By Andreas Kuehn and Trisha Ray
To examine the policies and their challenges, this chapter draws from in-depth, expert interviews with current and former government officials, trade associations, industry decision-makers, and technology experts, as well as a systematic document analysis of publicly available government and corporate documents.
By Andreas Kuehn & Alexandra Paulus
Governments and industry have become increasingly aware of the security risk that software supply chains can cause if not managed properly.
By Andreas Kuehn
Supply chain breakdowns and disruptions through cyber or other means can have
significant regional and global effects.
By Andreas Kuehn
The industry has for long been criticized for not paying sufficient attention to the cybersecurity of its products.
By Andreas Kuehn
The global surge in demand for critical materials has given rise to new geopolitics.
By Andreas Kuehn & Sven Herpig
The EU must define what it understands as active cyber defence and how it relates to other cyber policy issues.
By Dr. Andreas Kuehn & Vaibhav Garg
A centralized, prescriptive approach may struggle with scalability, device diversity, and deployment complexity.
Originally published in Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation
By Dr. Andreas Kuehn and Jan-Peter Kleinhans
Originally published in Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation
By Dr. Andreas Kuehn
By Dr. Andreas Kuehn, Jared Mondschein, and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
Originally published in Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 67
By Andreas Kuehn
In a race to develop ‘smart cities’, policymakers in metropolitan regions across the world are rapidly deploying IoT devices, sensors, and emerging ICTs, including AI and facial recognition to solve various urban governance challenges, including the need to increase efficiencies, and empower citizens.
By Dr. Andreas Kuehn, Jared Mondschein, and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
Originally published in Route Fifty
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By Andreas Kuehn and Tara Chawla
The AI buildout is not simply a race for more advanced accelerators, but an infrastructure-centered contest to turn technology, energy, and capital into usable computing capacity. The decisive measure will not be announced spending or planned capacity, but how quickly those commitments become reliable, operational computing capacity.
By Andreas Kuehn and Cauvery Ganapathy
While the integration of AI offers benefits for the optimization of energy systems through grid management, renewable energy integration, predictive maintenance, and accurate forecasting of alternative forms of energy, its energy-intensive nature could also negatively impact the countries and ecosystems seeking to adopt it.
By Jeffrey D. Bean and Andreas Kuehn
Looking ahead, as the Department of Defense strives to incorporate and utilize more AI chips, it will need to secure access to leading nodes for edge chips and the confidence in pathways to use greater allocations of secure cloud services for advanced computing.
By Andreas Kuehn and Jeffrey D. Bean
What costs and risks need to be taken into account when geopolitics are causing shifts in global supply chains for semiconductors?
By Andreas Kuehn
With the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election taking place in less than 2 months, a recap of the Biden administration's efforts to achieve a "latticework" of international partnerships with like-minded allies is necessary as we look to the future of trade and technology cooperation.
recent events
A Panel at RSA Conference on ‘Put A Label on It! Protecting IoT by Empowering Consumers’
Event at IGF 2021 on “Bringing practical tools to the global community to secure ICT supply chains”
media appearances
Featured in ‘The Indo-Pacific Current’ podcast by Pacific Forum on Defending Supply Chain Cyber Security .
