Daniil Rose

I am an integrated undergraduate-graduate (IUG) student at The Pennsylvania State University, concurrently pursuing a Master of International Affairs (with a concentration in Law, Policy, and Engineering) alongside dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Engineering and German. My work sits at the intersection of technology, organizations, and public decision-making, and increasingly centers on one question: how do organizations retain what they know, and what does it cost them when they don't?

I came to that question through experience before I had a name for it. As a computer engineer at RTD Embedded Technologies, I inherited a product line after a wave of departures and spent months reconstructing knowledge the company had already paid to create. As President of the 75th Assembly of the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), I represented over 12,000 students in negotiations with university administration and state officials, and led an organization whose entire leadership turns over every year, where institutional memory is a constant, practical problem.

That question now drives my research. With Dr. Larry Catá Backer, I co-authored "Blockchain Regulatory Systems: Conceptual and Operational Challenges," forthcoming in the Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal, which examines how technological systems transform the knowledge entrusted to them. My independent work on the U.S. research enterprise, developed through IEEE-USA's WISE program in Washington, D.C., modeled how intermediary organizations keep federal research policy from getting lost in translation: work I presented to members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

My analytical approach is grounded in hands-on engineering and policy experience: a summer as a Cyber Strategy Scholar with Deloitte GPS in Washington, D.C., programming satellite payloads in C and Rust at quub, collaborating on generative AI for robotics with Peraton Remotec and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and architecting a new IoT product line at RTD. I also had the honor of serving as the emcee for the 2025 Penn State Homecoming.

This fall, I am applying to Ph.D. programs in management and organizations, focused on organizational learning, knowledge retention, and how technological repositories, from databases to AI systems, reshape institutional memory. I aim to build a career in the professoriate studying how organizations remember, why they forget, and what forgetting costs them.