I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the UAE. In 2026–2027, I am an inaugural fellow in the AI Academic Upskilling Program for Social Scientists at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford, and a visiting fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World at Australian National University. My research focuses on the intersection between computational social science and international security, with a regional focus on Asia. My book project explores the strategic relationship between China’s official rhetoric and crisis response.

My research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including International Security, Political Science Research and Methods, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. My policy pieces have also been published in Foreign Affairs and East Asia Forum.

Previously, I held fellowships at the Department of Politics at Princeton University, the Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, the Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellowship at ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, and predoctoral research fellowships at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies and the USC Korean Studies Institute. I also received the Charles Koch Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California in 2024, my master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2016, and my undergraduate degree in Political Science, with University Distinction and Departmental Honors, from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in 2015.