Elis Vllasi
Associate Teaching Professor and Program Director in Applied Cybersecurity and Nuclear Deterrence, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Chapter Member: Tennessee SSN
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Vllasi teaches international security courses at Simon Fraser University; Canada; and is a senior fellow at the Purdue FORCES Initiative. A civil and environmental engineer with a Ph.D. in political science from Purdue University; Vllasi bridges social sciences and STEM to tackle problems using tailored approaches combining quantitative and qualitative analyses. His research interests include hostile influence operations (Russian and Chinese); hybrid warfare; and transnational ethnic conflict. Vllasi is an experienced and award-winning university instructor teaching courses on grey zone warfare; NATO; and international relations.