I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. In 2026–2027, I will be an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Clements Center for National Security. In Fall 2027, I will join the Department of Politics, Governance, and Economics at American University’s School of International Service as an Assistant Professor.
My dissertation examines how business interests—specifically at the firm level—shape elite preferences on free trade, with a focus on U.S.-China trade relations over the past three decades. More broadly, I am interested in how the conflict and confluence of domestic interests (e.g., business, labor, and human rights groups) shape foreign economic policymaking, including trade and industrial policies. I also have a strong interest in the application of text-as-data/NLP in political science.
Outside of academia, I am a nonprofit leader and democracy advocate for Hong Kong. I testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the city’s democracy and the rule of law. I received a B.Soc.Sc. and an LL.B. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2017.