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Brinda Gokul I am a computational social scientist studying how covert networks organize, adapt, and survive under pressure from state authorities. My research explores the structural strategies used by groups such as ISIS, terrorist financiers, drug cartels, and human smuggling rings to coordinate recruitment, financing, and operations while maintaining operational secrecy. I combine network science, declassified intelligence data, financial and text analysis, and agent-based modeling to uncover the hidden architectures that sustain transnational threats. Drawing on collaborations with the World Bank, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, my work bridges political science, economics, graph theory and scientific computing to inform both scholarship and national security policy. I am completing my Ph.D. in Information and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan and will join the University of Virginia’s National Security Data and Policy Institute as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in August 2025. |
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ResearchI'm interested in graph-based algorithms, simulations and novel data sources for national security and intelligence. |
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