Academic Profile

I study authoritarian politics, political communication, public opinion, and political methodology, with regional expertise in China and Southeast Asia. Specifically, my research investigates how authoritarian regimes operate censorship and propaganda to manipulate domestic and international information environment on social media. Apart from my main research agenda on authoritarian politics and political communication, I am also interested in understanding prejudice toward LGBTQ individuals and the consequences of their increasing visibility and political representation. Methodologically, I adopt a multi-method approach, including computational methods (text-as-data and audio-as-data), survey experiments, design-based causal inference, and qualitative fieldwork. My work is published or forthcoming at Comparative Political Studies, International Organization and The Journal of Politics.

In 2024, I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2018, I received an LL.B. degree in Law from Renmin University of China.