Academic Activities

Seminars (Invited Talks)

• The Seminar at Political Science Speaker Series [Link], Mar. 15, 2025
  Online seminar presentation: Cumulative Negative Signals: How Street Protests Influence Political Selection in China
  
• Tsinghua University Biweekly Seminar on Computational Social Science [Link], Nov. 11, 2024
  Online seminar presentation: How institutionalized feedback works: Online citizen complaints and local government responsiveness in China
  - Discussant: Prof. Dongshu LIU
  - Moderator: Dr. Jianjun YU
  - Audience: 50+ participants
• The Seminar at Political Science Speaker Series [Link], Dec. 16, 2023
  Online seminar presentation: Responsiveness without Contention: How Chinese Governments Enhance Citizen Claim-Making Efficacy
  - Discussants/commentators: Prof. Emerson NIOU, Prof. Junyan JIANG, Prof. Zhaotian LUO, etc.
  - Moderator: Zhencen LIU

Conferences I Attended

• The 5th Conference on Comparative Politics in Changing Societies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Beijing, China, July 5, 2025
  Presented in person: What Drives Conspiracy Endorsement [Link1]
• 2025 Asia Pacific Public Policy Network (AP-PPN), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong SAR, China, May 22-23, 2025
  Presented in person: Instittuion Building for Government Responsiveness in China [Link1]
• Asia-Pacific Politics and Public Administration Conference (APPPA) & 8th Empirical Political Science in Hong Kong Workshop (EPSHK), Hong Kong SAR, China, May 16-17, 2025
  Presented in person: How Institutionalized Vertical Accountability Enhances Government Responsiveness in China [Link1]
• The 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science, Hong Kong SAR, China, Jan. 17-18, 2025
  Presented in person: Cumulative Negative Signals: How Street Protests Influence Political Selection in China [Link1] [Link2]
• JCPA–Tsinghua University Workshop on Comparative Analysis of Urban Governance and Policy [Link1] [Link2], Beijing, China, Dec. 16-17, 2024
  Presented in person: Responsiveness without Contention: How Bureaucratic Institutionalization Enhances Government Responsiveness in China
  Discussants: Prof. Eddie HUI and Prof. Jidong CHEN
• The 3rd Conference on Comparative Politics in Changing Societies [Link], Beijing, China, Jul. 4, 2023
  Presented in person: Risk Aversion and Selective Responsiveness: How Chinese Local Governments Prioritize Online Complaints over Non-Complaints
  Discussants: Prof. Xiao MA and Prof. Yanjun LIU
• The 2023 Annual Conference of Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) [Link], Chicago, United States, Apr. 13-16, 2023
  Presented in person: From Instability to Institutionalization: The Establishment of the 12345 Hotline System in China
• The 2021 Conference for Junior Scholars in Public Administration, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, Jun. 22-23, 2021
  Presented: Encouraging within Confining: Interpreting Macro-protest, Meso-protest, and Micro-protest in Xi’s Era
• The 2nd International Conference on Political Party and Good Governance, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 10-12, 2019
  Presented in person: Taking Root in the City: The Infiltrating, Embedding, Integrating Process of the Chinese Communist Party's Organizational Network of Power, 1949-1952

Methodological Workshops I Attended

• The 1st Computational Political Science Workshop [Link], organized by Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-27, 2024
  Covered: ABM simulation, experiments, text analysis, spatial analysis, data visualization, image-as-data analysis, and ChatGPT prompt strategies
• The Workshop of Spatial-Econometrics Analysis [Link], organized by City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, May 20-24, 2024
  Lecturer: Prof. Robert J. Franzese (University of Michigan)
  Focus: Theories and coding techniques for spatial regression
• Online Course “Introduction to Computational Social Science” [Link], organized by NYU Shanghai, Jul. 15-19, 2023
  Lecturer: Prof. Josh Yongjun Zhang
  Topics: Computational social science overview, web scraping, text-as-data, topic modeling, sentiment analysis, word embeddings, and image-as-data techniques (with R and Python tutorials)
• The 2023 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS–NYU Shanghai) [Link], Shanghai, China, Jun. 26-Jul. 2, 2023
  Joined a computational social science community and gained insights into new computational methods
• The 2022 Workshop on Quantitative Social Sciences, hosted by Yu Xie (谢宇), Peking University, Beijing, China, Aug. 15-26, 2022
• Online Course “Spatial Data Analysis in Social Sciences Using R” [Link], organized by NYU Shanghai, Jul. 21-25, 2022
  Certificate received
• The Workshop of Introduction to Data Competency [Link], organized by the University Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Feb.–May 2021
  Topics: Problem definition, data preparation, analysis, visualization, and deployment