Hoover Fellow / Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Sergey Sanovich is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Before joining the Hoover Institution, Sergey Sanovich was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Sanovich received his PhD in political science from New York University and continues his affiliation with its Center for Social Media and Politics. He studies how autocrats use digital tools, including AI, for censorship and propaganda at home and abroad, with a particular focus on Russian foreign policy, politics, and information warfare against Ukraine. His research has been published at the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Research & Politics, and Big Data, and as a lead chapter in an edited volume from Oxford University Press. Sanovich has also contributed to several policy reports, including “Securing American Elections,” issued by the Stanford Cyber Policy Center at its launch.