about
Shlomo Kashani is a doctoral researcher in Defence and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University. His research addresses the ethical dimensions of strategic decision-making under conditions of extreme uncertainty and compressed time, with particular focus on just war theory — how states and institutions reach morally consequential judgements when the evidentiary basis is incomplete.
His scholarly work draws on strategic-perception scholarship, just war doctrine, and documentary method to assess conduct, accountability, and institutional failure under political pressure.
His academic training spans strategic studies, quantum physics, and signal processing at Missouri State University, Johns Hopkins University, and Queen Mary University of London. Alongside his scholarly work he maintains an active technical practice in machine learning, including a Gold Medal in the Kaggle AI Mathematical Olympiad.
He is based in Jerusalem, Israel, and writes from within the civic and documentary reality his work analyses.
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Production LLM systems, RAG architectures, agentic AI, and quantum machine learning. Twenty years shipping systems that work at scale. AIMO-2 Gold Medalist.
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Applied analysis at the intersection of emerging technology and geopolitical risk. Strategic foresight, complex institutional environments, AI in high-stakes analytical and policy contexts.
Education & Recognition
Defence & Strategic Studies
Geopolitical risk · strategic theory · technology and statecraft
M.Sc Quantum Physics & Computing
Quantum machine learning · applied physics
M.Sc Digital Signal Processing
Advanced signal processing · distinction
B.Sc Engineering
Systems engineering
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