I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Southern California and a predoctoral research fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies. My research focuses on the intersection between Political Communication and International Security, with a regional focus on Asia. My dissertation book project explores the strategic relationship between China’s official rhetoric and crisis response. My research is supported by the Charles Koch Foundation’s Dissertation Fellowship and Smith Richardson Foundation’s World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship.

Before that, I was a predoctoral research associate at Princeton University under the supervision of Professor Marc Ratkovic and Professor Noel Foster, a Wang Gungwu visiting fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore), and a predoctoral research fellow at Korean Studies Institute (KSI) in USC. My research has been presented in both think tank and academic conferences and received the Jimmy Carter Best Paper Award on U.S.-China relations. Before my Ph.D.studies, I was a teaching associate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. I received my undergraduate degree (University Distinction & Departmental Honors) in Political Science at the University of Michigan, and my master’s degree in International Relations at the University of Chicago.