Welcome! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the China Data Lab at UC, San Diego. I received my PhD in political science from New York University’s Politics Department. I specialize in applying computational methods — including machine learning, large language models, and web scraping — to better understand the comparative politics of authoritarian regimes. Specifically, I examine how China and other autocracies utilize propaganda and censorship to shape the opinions of both domestic and foreign audiences. To that end, I apply text as data and machine learning tools towards the measurement of political science concepts, such as propaganda, in text data. A list of my publications, working papers, and software can be found below.

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