Fred received his M.A. in International Public Policy from Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurid University and Ph.D. in International Relations from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He served as a Fulbright exchange Ph.D. at American University in Washington, D.C. 

 His research is centered on technological competition between superpowers, digital authoritarianism, trade war, and far-right populism. He is currently working on cyberattacks and disinformation targeting Canadian infrastructure and elections by foreign regimes. He is also keen on the correlation between neoliberal globalization and the rise of far-right populism as backlash.