Yasmine Wong is Associate Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Yasmine’s research broadly focuses on social cohesion and polarisation in online and offline spaces, exploring old and new faultlines and identities like citizenship, race, gender, and sexuality in Singapore. She also looks at gendered experiences and misogyny in the online sphere in relation to gendered online harms, and misogyny and the Far Right. Her comments on Incels (in Singapore) have been featured in The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, as well as the Channel News Asia Deep Dive podcast series. Yasmine is co-editor of Gender and Security in Digital Space: Navigating Access, Harassment, and Disinformation.

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 17 Issue 02

  12 March, 2025

Policy Reports

• Gender, Security and Digital Space: Issues, Policies, and the Way Forward

  13 December, 2021

• GNET-CENS Online Workshop on Right Wing Extremism: East and West

  07 May, 2021

RSIS Commentary Series

• From Banal to Extreme: When Benign Online Communities Become Breeding Grounds for the Far-Right

  26 September, 2025

• Misogyny and Violent Extremism – A Potential National Security Issue

  23 September, 2024

• Information Pollution and the War in Gaza: Implications for Singapore

  24 June, 2024

• Identities and Inclusiveness: Rethinking Social Cohesion

  31 October, 2022

• BLM Movement: Singapore and Glocalisation

  13 July, 2020

• Pandemic Conundrum: To Control or to Trust?

  26 June, 2020

• COVID-19: What Changes – and What Doesn’t

  17 April, 2020

• COVID-19 and Sinophobia in Singapore

  23 March, 2020

Commemorative / Event Reports

• CRISIS OF THE SOCIAL: FAULTLINES, (UN)TRUTHS, AND MANIPULATION

  26 July, 2023

• CENS & The High Commission of Canada Webinar Series On “Gender, Security and Digital Space : Exploring Risks, Opportunities, and Security Implications”

  10 August, 2021

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Gender and Security in Digital Space: Navigating Access, Harassment, and Disinformation (with Gulizar Haciyakupoglu), Eds. New York: Routledge , 2022

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Victim and the Cyber Vigilante: An Additional Perspective on Cyber Vigilantism” in Majeed Khader, Whistine Xiau Ting Chai & Loo Seng Neo , Introduction to Cyber Forensic Psychology: Understanding the Mind of the Cyber Deviant Perpetrators. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing , 2021, 147-164

Op-Eds

• “Global Far Right Narratives Find Resonance in Singapore”, Center for the Study of Organized Hate, 2 October 2025
• “Gender and the 2025 Singapore General Elections”, The Diplomat, 6 June 2025
• “Hashtag geopolitics: Understanding the power of memes in the India-Pakistan conflict” (with Antara Chakraborthy), The Interpreter, 19 May 2025
• “Hashtag geopolitics: Understanding the power of memes in the India-Pakistan conflict (With Yasmine Wong)” (with Antara Chakraborthy), theinterpreter, 19 May 2025
• “India’s Digital Footprint on the Israel-Gaza War” (with Antara Chakraborthy), The Diplomat, 21 October 2023
• “The Singapore leg of #gotagohome: diaspora sentiments” (with Antara Chakraborthy), new mandala, 26 August 2022
• “Need to Tackle Discriminatory Beliefs in Fight Against Online Harms” (with Charmian Aw), The Straits Times, 12 July 2022
• “Southeast Asia Must Be Wary of Gendered Cyber Abuse” (with Gulizar Haciyakupoglu), The Diplomat, 13 June 2022
• “Rethinking What We Owe Each Other” (with Jane Loo), The Singapore Policy Journal, 13 August 2021
• “Pandemie der Fremdenfeindlichkeit”, Suedostasien, 15 February 2021
• “Two faces of ontological (in)security: Xenophobia and cooperation in Singapore” (with Terri-Anne Teo), Academia SG, 26 October 2020

• Invited guest, Podcast on “Deep Dive: Are incels a growing concern for Singapore?”, Channel News Asia, 26 September 2025, Available at: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/deep-dive/are-incels-growing-concern-singapore-5370326
• Panellist, “STEP Sociovation Forum 2022: Emerging trends and latest developments in Internet Fraud, Fake News, and Hate Speech” by Centre for Experiential Learning (CEL), School of Social Sciences (SUSS), 1 June 2022.
• Speaker, “Race and Racial Relations: Origins and Impact of Racial Relations in Singapore”, Republic Polytechnic, 9 March 2021.
• Panellist, Webinar on “CAIDG Showcase Session 2: COVID-19 and marginality: Confronting pandemic inequalities” by Singapore Management University – Centre for AI and Data Governance, 22 February 2021.