Haohao is a DPhil student in Sociology with a keen interest in demography and population science. He is passionate about studying human behavior, particularly how individuals act and interact with one another. His DPhil thesis explores a range of topics, including the expansion of education, trends in stagnating or declining life expectancy, disparities in chronic pain in the U.S., and the historical and future risks of famine worldwide.

Haohao's academic interests encompass social demography, social epidemiology, analytical sociology, sequence analysis, propensity score analysis, applied machine learning, and extreme value theory.

Before embarking on his doctoral studies, Haohao earned an MPhil in Sociology and Demography with Distinction from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Social Sciences with Quantitative Methods with First-Class Honours from University College London. He 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 and the Labour Demography Laboratory. Additionally, he serves as a research assistant at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Demographic Science Unit at Oxford Population Health.

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