Ambuj Sahu is a pursuing his PhD in Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests include international security, India-China relations, Indian Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific, and geopolitics of technology supply chains (specifically, semiconductors). He is proficient in quantitative methods like social network analysis, applied statistics, quantitative text analysis, and geographic information systems.  He is also doing an MS in Applied Statistics along with his doctoral studies.

He holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (2017) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He was the President's Scholar (2019-20) for pursuing MA in International Relations at South Asian University. In his previous role as Research Associate at the Delhi Policy Group (DPG), he has contributed many projects mandated by high-level government agencies on India's foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific.

His articles have been published in various media outlets like The Times of India, The National Interest (US), The Economic Times, Firstpost, The Print, Swarajya, Financial Express, etc.

During the summers of 2020, Ambuj created The Bridge Project - a podcast series on academia-policy interactions in International Relations and Indian Foreign Policy.