I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine and a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Networks and Relational Analysis, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, and the Center for Organizational Research at the University of California, Irvine. Starting in Fall 2025, I will be an Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology in the Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

My research areas include collective action/social movements, networks, organizations, and media. My main line of work focuses on the dynamics and outcomes of collective action. I use digital trace data and quantitative and computational methods to study political processes leading to social change. My work has appeared in Social Forces, Sociological Forum, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change.

My methodological expertise encompasses network analysis, natural language processing, regression analysis, causal inference, comparative historical analysis, and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). I was a project leader and invited speaker at The BIGSSS Computational Social Science Summer Schools and Research Incubator in Bremen, Germany.

Before coming to graduate school, I worked as a researcher and project coordinator at The Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Costa Rica. I have also served as the founding coordinator for The Center for Developing Country Studies (DCS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing. I got my Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University and my Master’s degree from the University of California, San Diego.

Please find my CV here (last updated August 2024).