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Denver, Colorado, US

• Built the "Elite Chinese Diplomacy and Financial Flows" web app, which visualizes 6,000 projects in 186 countries and 5,000 diplomatic encounters to highlight patterns in China's international relations (R, Shiny.
• Built the "Climate Vulnerability and International Trade Flows" web app, which uses 30 years of trade figures and 45 climate indicators to illustrate how intensifying climate change could shift global commodity flows.
• Won 2nd prize out of 55 in the Kennedy school's "Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics" course competition for a stacked ensemble model to classify potable water sources in Tanzania (MCMC imputation, random forest.
• Won 5th prize out of 115 in Kaggle’s "Data Science for Good" competition for a high-precision program to analyze professional pathways in the LA city government using only raw text (NLP, network analysis, t-SNE).
• Replicated and extended 5 quantitative political science journal articles using unsupervised text classification with Chinese social media posts, hierarchical models, and Bayesian inference (NLP, quantitative methods).
• Built a stacked ensemble machine learning model that improved response time predictions for Boston 311 calls by 23 percent using only a small subset of available training data (adaptive spline, ridge regression, KNN).

Led preliminary research effort on the distributional economic effects of air pollution control policies in China’s Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region for a forthcoming book by the Forum on Health, Environment, and Development.

New York, NY, US

• Authored 130 pages of research memos, drawn extensively from Chinese-language sources, on China’s recent economic and environmental policy reforms for The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (Oxford.
• Contributed over 100 posts in collaboration with 8 research associates to CFR’s Asia Unbound blog, including articles on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, green bonds, and Chinese overseas nuclear power plant.
• Launched and curated 17 editions of the Eyes on Asia newsletter, produced 50 Asia Unbound podcasts, garnering 50,000+ listens, and expanded the Asia program’s Facebook and Twitter follower base by 650%.
• Served as a rapporteur for the Asia Society’s “Task Force on U.S.-China Policy,” comprised of 20 senior scholars and former U.S. government officials, at retreats in New York, Washington, DC, and Oxford, UK.

Brooklyn, NY, US

• Represented a four-person, Beijing-based team in New York City to maintain over $900,000 in Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund grants to support interdisciplinary research on Chinese environment and health.
• Authored, edited, and translated 650+ pages of reports, academic papers, and conference documents on Chinese public health, development, and environment topics, and China-Africa migration, trade, and investment.
• Drafted a successful $300,000 grant proposal to the Luce Foundation for continued funding of the China-Africa Knowledge Project, a two-year initiative to bolster China-Africa research networks.
• Designed and maintained web pages for the China Environment and Health Initiative and China-Africa Knowledge Project, implementing bilingual pages and custom HTML and CSS for improved functionality.

• Organized and maintained collection and digital database of more than 1 million fish specimens.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Elected by peers to oversee strategic development for Harvard’s premier student orchestra of over 90 members.
• Managed logistics and operations for 60+ rehearsals, 10 performances, and 2 international tours, to Cuba and the Middle East, over two years.
• Liaised regularly with Music Director and Harvard staff, oversaw and collaborated with 3 elected officers, and presided over operations committee of 18 students.

Beijing, CN

• Advised management on consumer engagement strategies for a 2.5 million-square-foot retail center.
• Analyzed and presented novel research on American retail centers to 40+ managerial staff in Mandarin.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Gathered and compiled data on Bluegill Sunfish fin kinematics for a study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
• Edited 3 scientific papers on self-propulsive robotic fish for publication in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.

Master In Public Policy, International And Global Affairs

A.B., Organismic And Evolutionary Biology