Alayna Yap is a MPhil International Relations candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Her research decodes Chinese and Russian political communications through combining computational social science methods and cybersecurity tools, with a focus on authoritarian informationalism, algorithmic manipulation, cyber warfare, and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference tactics. Her thesis work examines the prevalence of coordination, automation, and disinformation in foreign communications towards African states.