Welcome! I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2025, along with an M.A. in Statistics and Data Science and an M.Phil. in Political Science. I also hold an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University. My research lies at the intersection of International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Political Economy. I study how globalization reshapes governance capacity and how domestic political dynamics shape the tools of economic statecraft. My dissertation, The Fiscal Politics of Economic Openness in Contemporary China, shows how China’s integration into global markets expanded fiscal capacity and centralized taxation, challenging the notion that openness erodes state power in developing economies. I draw on original datasets, fieldwork, and advanced causal inference methods to answer questions that bridge domestic politics and the global political economy.

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