Short Bio

I am a 6th-year PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. My committee members are Scott Gehlbach (chair), Monika Nalepa, Wioletta Dziuda, James Robinson, Joel Mokyr, and Kenneth Pomeranz. I am an applied game theorist specializing in comparative and historical political economy. My research aims to develop a unified theory of the historical evolution of China’s political economy. More broadly, I extend this framework comparatively, particularly to Europe, to explain the origins of divergent trajectories of political and economic development.

Research Interest

• Formal Theory
• Comparative Politics
• Chinese Politics
• Historical Political Economy

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science, 2021 - present, University of Chicago
• M.A. in Social Sciences, 2019 - 2021, University of Chicago

Presentations

• [2026.10], Institutions in HPE Conference, UChicago, IL.
• [2026.09], APSA Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
• [2026.06], Yale-UB HPE Workshop, Barcelona, Spain.
• [2026.05], Asian Political History Conference, UMich Ann Arbor, MI.
• [2026.04], MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
• [2026.03], Virtual Workshop in HPE, Online.
• [2025.06], LSE Hayek Conference, London, UK.
• [2025.09], APSA Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
• [2025.08], EITM Summer Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
• [2025.06], Faculty Research Workshop, CEIBS, Shanghai, China.
• [2025.04], Formal Theory Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
• [2025.02], Econ History Lunch, Northwestern University, IL.
• [2025.02], Political Economy Lunch, University of Chicago, IL.
• [2024.06], SIOE Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
• [2024.09], APSA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
• [2024.04], MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
• [2024.02], Econ History Lunch, Northwestern University, IL.
• [2024.02], Political Economy Lunch, UChicago, IL.
• [2023.04], MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Awards

• Best APSA Paper Award (2026)
  For "A Relational Theory of Power Alternation" (with Zanhui Liu, Zhaotian Luo, and Yucheng Qiu), presented at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting.

CV

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