Rimon Tanvir Hossain is a Research Assistant with the Middle East Institute’s Program on Strategic Technologies and Cybersecurity. He received his M.P.P. from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and his B.A. from UC Berkeley. He is a MPhil/PhD Candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an Assistant Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation. Previously, Rimon served as a congressional staffer for the Office of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, where he led the State Department portfolio as a Constituent Services Representative. He has conducted independent research with the UCLA Global Public Affairs program on U.S.-China competition in the Bay of Bengal and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Journal on World Affairs. His research interests include international security, economic statecraft, migration and grand strategy particularly in the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East. His works have been published or are forthcoming with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, SAIS Review of International Affairs, Yale Journal on International Affairs and the SAIS Europe Global Journal on World Affairs.