Yenching Scholar · 燕京学者

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Working between Washington, Stanford, and Beijing on questions of economic statecraft, trans-Atlantic security, and the institutional life of authoritarian regimes.

Currently

Beijing, P.R.C. · 北京

Program

M.A., Yenching Academy

Open To

Conversations · Collaboration

Beijing 北京

39.9042° N
116.4074° E

Undergraduate

Stanford Int'l Relations '25

Graduate

Peking U. Yenching MA '27

Mandarin

HSK 5 OPI Adv. Mid

Arabic

Professional UT Austin ASI

About

简介

An international-affairs scholar working at the seam between the United States and the Chinese-speaking world. Stanford '25; now an M.A. candidate at the Yenching Academy of Peking University.

Research and work across Beijing, Taipei, Riga, Washington, and Palo Alto — focused on economic statecraft, trans-Atlantic security, and the institutional life of authoritarian regimes.

Education

教育

In Residence

Peking University

北京大学 · 燕京学堂

M.A., Yenching Academy

An interdisciplinary, China-focused master's program drawing early-career scholars and practitioners from around the world to Peking University.

Sep 2025 → Jul 2027 Beijing

Conferred

Stanford University

斯坦福大学

B.A., International Relations · Minor, East Asian Studies

Coursework spanning political science, economics, statistics, and the modern history of China and the Soviet Union.

2020 → 2025 Stanford, CA

Selected Work

经历

'25

Research Intern

China Studies Centre · Rīga Stradiņš University

Riga, Latvia

Worked under Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova on a paper arguing that NATO must develop tools to address economic disruptions threatening member-state national security.

'24

Arabic Summer Institute

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX

Completed UT Austin's Second-Year Arabic sequence in an intensive summer program — formal language study toward professional competence.

'23

Data Analyst Intern

Polydelta

Washington, D.C.

A D.C. consultancy advising government clients on the application of AI to mission-critical work. Performed exploratory data analysis on national-security datasets and learned the fundamentals of private equity.

'23

Mandarin Immersion

CIEE Taipei · Heidi Chou Fund Scholar

Taipei, Taiwan

Recipient of Stanford's Heidi Chou Fund Scholarship for full-immersion study of Mandarin in Taipei — coursework, homestay, and field study conducted entirely in the language.

'22

Research Assistant

Stanford Summer Research College

Stanford, CA

One of five researchers working with Dr. Norman Naimark on a forthcoming book examining the Stalinist Terror of the 1930s; focused on the origin and evolution of the Soviet gulag system.