My undergraduate degrees are in Mathematics (with Honors) and Chinese from the College of William & Mary. I studied Chinese language at Tsinghua University in 2010 and throughout my several years living in China.

At William & Mary, my Mathematics Honors Thesis modeled oyster repopulation efforts in the Chesapeake Bay. My Chinese senior thesis analyzed the relationship between Chinese state-owned enterprises and the central government. I studied Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University in the summer of 2010.

At Duke, I specialize in political economy and quantitative methods. I have taken coursework in the Political Science, Economics, Mathematics, and Public Policy departments. From 2018 to 2021, I was a Research Associate in Devlab@Duke working on the Machine Learning for Peace project. Our team predicted civil space movements across the world using data scraped from news stories online. We then applied a supervised classifier to find relevant events and forecast movements particular to each country. See our github for our news retrieval product.

I received a PhD from Duke’s Department of Political Science in 2022.