I am a computational political scientist and Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University (Division of China and East Asian Studies), where I study comparative political institutions in East Asia. My work bridges political science and data science to examine electoral behaviour and legislative politics, with a substantive focus on Taiwan. Previously, I held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Birmingham and University College Dublin, and was a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Bamberg. I completed my PhD in Politics at the Department of Government, University of Essex, in 2023. I am also a non-resident member of the Politics and Data Research Group at University College Dublin and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government at the University of Birmingham.
My current research examines how people and institutions make sense of political information, and how those interpretations shape representation, belief updating, and democratic governance. My work is anchored in the comparative study of East Asian politics, particularly Taiwan, while also drawing on cases from the UK, the US, and continental Europe. I use legislative data, survey experiments, and text-as-data methods. With these tools, I study how electoral systems shape legislative behaviour and why citizens come to misperceive politics. I also examine large language models and other AI systems, both as political actors and as instruments of measurement.
If you are attending APSA in Boston this year, visiting Taipei or Hualien (or Taroko/Truku), or just passing through Taiwan after the summer, please feel free to reach out. I would be very happy to grab a coffee or a beer.