Haohao is a DPhil student in Sociology, specializing in demography and population science. He is passionate about exploring human behavior, specifically examining individual actions and interactions through empirical data. His DPhil thesis explores a range of topics, including life expectancy and mortality disparities in the U.S., intergenerational transmission of longivity, and the risks of demographic collapse, under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Beam Dowd and Professor Ridhi Kashyap.

Haohao’s interests span a wide range of academic fields, including social demography, social epidemiology, sequence analysis, event history analysis, applied machine learning, and extreme value theory.

Haohao is currently affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research as a doctoral student at the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health, and Data Science. He is also one of the 2025 OxPo doctoral fellows at Centre for Research on Social Inequalities, Sciences Po and the National Centre for Scientific Research, France.

In addition, he works as a research assistant as well as DPhil student at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) and the Demographic Science Unit at Oxford Population Health. He also co-organizes the LCDS Population Health Reading Group and tutors second-year students in Human Sciences and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) on quantitative demography for the Demography and Population Paper.

Before beginning his doctoral studies, Haohao earned an MPhil in Sociology and Demography with Distinction from University of Oxford and a BSc in Social Sciences with Quantitative Methods (Data Science) with First-Class Honours from University College London.

Haohao’s research is generously supported by the Clarendon Fund, Nuffield College, and the Max Planck Society.