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.

She is a Consulting Scientist at the IPIE for a UNESCO project mapping multilingual scholarship on climate information integrity, specifically from non-English contexts and the Global South, supporting UNESCO's Global Initiative on Information Integrity on Climate Change (GIIICC) and its commitments under the COP30 Action Agenda.