Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and I am also completing an MS in Statistics at UCLA. 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 states — especially a rising China — exert and legitimise influence in international organisations and global governance, often through everyday practices such as staffing, agenda-setting, and framing rather than formal rule change. Related strands explore China’s strategic discourse and diplomatic practice, and the political economy of trade regulation across international and domestic arenas. I approach these questions using computational text analysis of large institutional records.

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.