Team

Nikhil Mulani is the founder and CEO of Augur. Previously, he led work on AI security policy on the National Policy team at the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. Nikhil has also worked with think-tanks to inform U.K., U.S., and international policy. Before that, he was an AI/ML product manager and a management consultant. He studied at the Wharton School and Harvard University.

Cécile Carrel is a researcher at Augur, where she focuses on European AI supply chain positioning over the next decade through the lenses of economic and national security. She holds a Master's in Public Policy from the London School of Economics and works more broadly on the geopolitics of AI. Her background combines technical literacy from engineering work at Amazon, quantitative skills from data and statistical work at the World Economic Forum and UNICEF, and analytical writing skills from her work at the International Crisis Group.

Patrick is a researcher at Augur, where he focuses on how countries globally are positioned across the AI supply chain. Previously, he was a Winter Fellow at GovAI and a summer fellow with ERA Cambridge where he researched China’s efforts to indigenize EUV technology. Patrick has a policy degree from Columbia SIPA and has previously interned across the U.S. government and the UN system.

Priya is a researcher at Augur, where she focuses on ownership across the quantum supply chain and on quantum-AI convergence. Priya is also a PhD researcher at the University of Oxford, where her work spans technical and policy dimensions of quantum technologies. Previously, as a quantum engineer at QuTech in Delft, she developed AI-driven approaches to improve the reliability of quantum computers. She was the inaugural AI Policy Fellow at Mila-Quebec AI Institute, where she worked on the convergence of quantum and AI, and has worked with the Open Quantum Institute (CERN), GESDA, and the Quantum Ecosystems and Technology Council of India on supply chains for quantum technologies.