CV
Education
Ph.D in Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020.09-2025.12 (expected)
Major fields: political methodology, comparative politics, and American politics
- 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
Publication
- Area under the ROC Curve has the most consistent evaluation for binary classification (PLOS ONE)
Selected Working Papers
- Fairness of model evaluation: how evaluation metrics can exert aggregation bias (under review)
- A dynamic model of polarization under segregation (under review)
- Assessing model fitting and variable selection of synthetic control methods (under review)
- Meta analysis as a binary classification problem (preparation for submission)
- Reducing algorithmic bias through multi-calibrated model evaluation (preparation for submission)
Work experience
- June 2017- August 2020: Risk Tech Consultant
- 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, PS 532-Quant Pol Analysis II, PS 532-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
- PS 241-Comparative Politics in the Global South, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, UIUC
Conferene Presentations
- Society for Political Methodology Annual Meeting: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2025
- Society for Causal Inference Annual Meeting: 2024
- Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2023, 2024, 2025
- Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting: 2024
- Washington University at St Louis: 2023
Service
- Referee: Journal of Machine Learning Research, American Political Science Review, Chinese Political Science Review
Skills
- Technical proficiency: R, SAS, SQL, Python, Git, Linux Shell, Javascript, Html, QGIS, Spark, GeoJson, LeafLet