Welcome! I am an Early Career Research Fellow at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I received my PhD in Political Science and MS in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2026. Before NTU, I was a research specialist in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action. I earned my MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago and BSocSc in Politics and Public Administration from the University of Hong Kong.

My research examines how a rising China exerts and legitimises influence in international organisations, often through everyday practices such as staffing, agenda-setting and framing rather than formal rule change. I also study China’s diplomatic practice, the political economy of trade regulation, and what large language models carry into political life, as both objects of study and instruments for reading political text at scale.

I have published in the Review of International Organizations, International Affairs, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Global Policy, and written in The Washington Post. My research has been supported by NTU’s Supporting Pioneering Academic Research Knowledge White Space Funding and UCLA’s Alice Belkin Memorial Scholarship.