I am a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. My substantive interests are encapsulated by interstate dynamics in international relations and span international organizations, territoriality, international security and conflict, and international political economy. I also study the applications of various quantitative methods in empirical social sciences, including observational causal inference (with SUTVA violations), Bayesian statistics, inferential network analysis, and large language models. Outside of political science research, I am a language enthusiast fluent in English and Mandarin, and conversational in Cantonese and French, and trying to keep up my learning streak in Spanish and Korean on Duolingo.