Ho Ting Hung

Bosco is an MPhil Candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford (St Anne’s College) and the Co-Founder of the Oxford Computational Political Science Group (OCPSG), a research initiative dedicated to advancing the use of evidence-based computational approaches to tackle complex global challenges and supported by the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). He graduated with a BSc in Politics and International Relations (first class honours) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he studied on a full scholarship and wrote his dissertation on China's cyber sovereignty and AI governance visions using a machine learning approach.

Bosco has worked extensively in the space of AI safety and governance. He is a MARS 4.0 Fellow at the Cambridge AI Safety Hub (CAISH) and a Research Collaborator at the MIT FutureTech AI Governance Mapping Project. He is a Junior Mentor of the Research Programme at Impact First, where he leads a team of high-potential students working on a research project on frontier AI models and political persuasion. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Future Impact Group (Oxford Group on AI Policy), where he co-authored research papers on risk management of advanced AI systems, including a paper cited by the International AI Safety Report 2026.

With a background in political science and international affairs, Bosco is a Researcher at the International Team for the Study of Security Verona, at which he delivered research to members of the US Department of State, FBI, and USAID. He has also held research positions at other geopolitical consultancies and research organizations like the Global Studies Institute of Hong Kong and London Politica. At Oxford, he is assisting the European Studies Centre in large-N textual data analysis of the mutual perceptions and relations between China, the US, and other major countries with Europe and the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) in subject recruitment and experiment administration. He was a Fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab and an Editor at St. Antony's International Review (STAIR). During his time at LSE, he served as the President of LSE's international affairs magazine The London Globalist and the Research Director of the LSE Undergraduate Political Review, where he is now sitting on its Board of Directors to provide guidance on its operations. He also represented LSE to present his research on information operations at the Posters in Parliament.

Bosco has been interviewed by France 24 and Al Jazeera to provide geopolitical and macroeconomic analyses. He was recently invited to speak to the European Parliament's Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Mission to the UK about disinformation and media literacy.

Awards

• India Conference at Harvard Policy Hackathon 2025 - Finalist (2025)

• Center for International Relations - International Affairs Forum Student Writing Competition - Winner (2023)

• The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the UK and the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council - The 3rd University Student Peace in Korea Essay Competition – Hope Prize (2022)

Research Interests

• Sino-US relations

• Chinese politics

• International political economy

• Computational social science

• Emerging technology

• Information warfare

Language

• Cantonese (Native)

• English (Fluent)

• Mandarin (Fluent)

• French (Elementary)

• Korean (Beginner)