CV
Education
Ph.D in Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020.09-2025.05 (expected)
Major fields: comparative politics, American politics, and political methodology
- M.S. in Applied Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021.01-2023.05
- Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute, Emory University, 2024.06-2024.07
Working Papers
- Area under the ROC Curve has the most consistent evaluation for binary classification (revise and resubmit)
- Are we bootstrapping the right thing: a new approach to quantify uncertainty of ATT estimates (under review)
- Context matters: re-assessing the skill endowment model prediction of globalization attitudes (under review)
- A dynamic model of polarization under segregation (in preparation for submission, manuscript available upon request)
- A Lasso-augmented time series alternative to the synthetic control method: estimating the econmic impact of Hong Kong’s sovereignty return to China (working paper, manuscript available upon request)
- Testing multiple hypotheses at the same time: an intake from psychological decision theory (ready for submission, manuscript available upon request)
Work experience
- June 2017- August 2020: Software Developer
- Bank of Montreal
- Duties included: One of the primary developers for several major releases in IFRS9 (International Financial Risk Statements 9) and CECL (Current Expected Credit Risk) projects
Teaching Experience
- PS 532-Quant Pol Analysis III, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UIUC
- PS 531-Quant Pol Analysis II, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UIUC
- PS 530-Quant Pol Analysis I, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UIUC
- PS 305 US Supreme Court, Instructor, Department of Political Science, UIUC
- PS 343-Governance & Politics of China, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UIUC
Conferene Presentations
- Society for Political Methodology Annual Meeting: 2022, 2023, 2024
- Society for Causal Inference Annual Meeting: 2024
- Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2023, 2024
- Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2024
- Washington University at St Louis: 2023
Service
- Referee: American Political Science Review
Skills
- software proficiency: R, SAS, SQL, Python, Git, Linux Shell, Javascript, Html, QGIS, Spark and Hadoop, MATLAB