About

I am an Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica (IPSAS) in Taiwan.

Previously (2023-2025), I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University.

My research examines crime and conflict — why violence rises or falls, and how it shapes political behavior and institutions.

It addresses topics such as (1) how resource booms and economic shocks shift incentives for violence, (2) the political effects of crime and threat on democratic attitudes and voting, and (3) the dynamics of state-crime collusion. Across these questions, I combine formal modeling with a range of quantitative methods, drawing on cases from both developing and developed countries.

Extending this same lens, I also work on applied political economy questions, including housing policy and immigrant settlement, and how foreign investment shapes disaster recovery.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University in 2023 and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Sogang University, South Korea, in 2017.