About Me
I'm interested in studying global political strategy, particularly how nations navigate conflict and deterrence. That interest was first sparked by reading The Three-Body Problem as a kid—a classic Chinese sci-fi novel about the struggle between humans and an alien civilization. Its "dark forest" theory of deterrence, where survival hinges on credible threats and strategic restraint, fascinated me and pushed me to explore how such logic plays out in the real-world.
Growing up between China and the United States, I became especially drawn to the complex dynamics of U.S.-China competition. Today, I focus on how states use economic coercion and technology rivalry to shape global power structures, applying computational methods to study these strategies within the broader field of international political economy.
Research Projects
I'm striving to become a researcher focused on international
political economy and the geopolitics of emerging technologies.
Under Prof. Tai Ming Cheung at IGCC. , I helped develop a SQL-based database mapping over 2,500 Chinese research institutions involved in the IDAR (Introduction, Digestion, Assimilation, Re-Innovation) system. I used OpenAI's API for translation and cleaning and prepared 15+ variables for visualization in a project funded by the U.S. Department of State.
In a policy memo, I proposed three reforms to help China reach its 5% GDP growth target: lowering second-home down payment ratios, boosting affordable housing re-lending, and aligning existing mortgage rates. I tailored the proposal to different consumer segments, emphasizing short-term stimulus amid post-COVID market imbalances.
As a research apprentice to PhD candidate Alison Boehmer, I expanded a database of 400+ political events in 250+ U.S. state prisons by coding Prison Legal News articles from 1990–2019. I wrote Python scripts to scrape, normalize, and visualize data, later using R to compare rhetorics via sentiment analysis and linear modeling.
In a 22 page top 5% paper in the Pioneer Academics program, I argued for a new perspective on how Chinese film history reflects shifting CCP governance strategies. Supervised by Prof. Chyng F. Sun, I analyzed how party ideology and global market forces reconfigured the power dynamic between domestic film producers and Hollywood.