My areas of specialty are political economy and quantitative methods. I now work in the financial sector, where I research various topics in the natural and social sciences and extract insights for investment theses and product ideas.

My dissertation focused on how economic markets constrain government policy. Understanding these effects is important because governments, taxpayers, and investors all have skin in the game of effective use of government resources. Especially in today’s financialized economy, the costs of misunderstanding these markets and their effects are huge.

Prior to my time in academia, I worked for Microsoft Azure in Seattle and Beijing. From 2014 to 2018, I was in charge of constructing the internal analytics for Microsoft Azure China. My reports informed company financials and earnings reports, as well as internal decisions on datacenter capacity, marketing campaigns, and supply chain improvements. This role involved spending one week a month on the ground in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong from 2014 to 2016. I then relocated to Beijing full-time from 2016 to 2018.

My undergraduate degrees are in Mathematics (with Honors) and Chinese from the College of William & Mary. My Mathematics Honors Thesis modeled oyster repopulation efforts in the Chesapeake Bay. After studying Chinese language at Tsinghua University, my Chinese senior thesis analyzed the relationship between Chinese state-owned enterprises and the central government.