Research Interests:

I am a political methodologist. My research interests include missing data imputation, text analysis and social media study.

I am currently an assistant professor at the department of government at Harvard. I obtained my PhD in politics in May 2021 and worked as a research scientist at the Demography and Survey Science team at Facebook (2021-2022).

Working Papers

• Honest Inference on Missing Data


• A Latent Factor Approach to Missing Not at Random


• Observational Causal Inference with Confounders Missing not at Random


• Do Online Video Recommendation Algorithms Increase Polarization?

(with Matthew Baum, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Adam Berinsky, Andy Guess,
Dean Knox, Christopher Lucas, and Brandon Stewart)


• Word Association Test for Political Science

(with Ze Han and Rory Truex)


• Politicization of Refugees in Parliamentary Debates and the Media: Evidence from Uganda

(with Yang-Yang Zhou and Guy Grossman)

Fellowship and awards

• Best Student Poster on Method, Polmeth 2021
  
  
• John T. Williams Dissertation Prize 2019
  
  
• The Xu Wang *01 Fellowship Fund, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
  
  
• Best Poster Award at Asian Polmeth 2019


• Quantitative and Analytical Political Science (QAPS) Fellowship, Fall 2018 - Spring 2021


• Reviewer: Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Science Research and Methods

Conference

• American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Oct. 2021, Seattle (paper presentation)


• Political Methodology, July 2021, Virtual (poster and paper presentation)


• Model and data workshop, Mar. 2021, Virtual (Invited presentation)


• Asian Political Methodology, Jan. 2021, Virtual (paper presentation)


• American Political Science Association Annual meeting, Oct. 2020, Virtual (paper presentation)


• Political Methodology, July 2020, Virtual (poster)


• International methods colloquium (MPSA special panel), July 2020, Virtual Link here


• CPEWG workshop, NYU, November 2019, NY USA (Invited presentation)


• Political Methodology, July 2019, Cambridge USA (poster)


• Vision in Methodology, May. 2019, Georgia USA (presentation)


• Asian Political Methodology, Jan. 2019, Kyoto Japan (poster)


• Text as Data, Oct. 2018, Seattle USA (poster)


• Political Methodology, July 2018, Utah USA (poster, NSF travel fund)


• NYU CESS Experimental Political Science Conference, Feb. 2018, NYC USA (poster)

Teaching

• Instructor, Gov 51 Data Analysis and Politics, Spring 2023



This is the second course in the data science track by the Government department at Harvard. See more details at the course website.



• Preceptor, POL 574 Quantitative method, Spring 2019



This is the forth course in the politics method training sequence. The class covers a variety of topics in cutting-edge political science methodologies.

Student evaluation


• Preceptor, POL 573 Quantitative method, Fall 2018



This is the third course in the politics method training sequence. The class covers a variety of topics in cutting-edge political science methodologies.

Student evaluation



• Preceptor, POL 245 Visualizing Data, Summer 2018



This is the first course in R and basic statistics for incoming freshmen in Princeton. It is one of the classes offered for Freshman Scholars Institute.