Service

@KU

I am the founder and director of the KU Trade War Lab (TWL) and winner of the 2021 Schowen Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, the 2022 J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award, the 2023 Grant Goodman Undergraduate Mentor Award, and the 2024 KUIA International Teaching Award. I serve or have served on the Department of Political Science's Advisory, Undergraduate Studies, and Graduate Studies Committees. I am a core faculty member and interim associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Policy and Social Research (IPSR). I served on the College of Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Research Advisory Board, CLAS Scholarship Selection Committee, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Selection Committee, the General Research Fund Review Committee, and the Office of Research Social Sciences Internal Award Review Panel.  

I served as the faculty mentor to PhD students as part of the KU Political Science Department's Thompson Scholar Summer Research Program. I also mentored KU undergraduate students as part of the Global and International Studies (GIST) Senior Thesis Program and the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUR)'s Emerging Scholars Program as well as the Mercatus Center's Policy Analytics Research Program. Nine undergraduate students I have mentored have won the KU Undergraduate Research Award. 

I am a 2023-2025 Public Intellectual Program Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a 2021-2022 Wilson China Fellow, a member of the Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network, and a participant in the U.S.-China Futures Project. I served as Officer-at-Large for the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2020-2022. 

@UCSD

I served as Senior Advisor to China Focus, an online magazine & scholarly forum sponsored by the 21st Century China Center at UCSD GPS from 2013 to 2017. As adviser, I was the primary liaison between the editorial team and GPS faculty, managed content partnerships, ran social media strategy, and developed programs like the China Focus Debate (pictured above) and the China Focus Essay Contest. 

I was elected to serve as President of the UCSD Political Science Graduate Council in 2016. As President, I raised social capital by reviving department socials and created a common pool resource by curating resources such as sample fellowship applications, comprehensive exam notes, and job market packages in a shared Dropbox. I was awarded the UCSD GSA Peer Mentorship Award in 2018.  

I also mentored a team of UCSD undergraduate students as part of the Political Science Department Research Apprenticeship Program in 2016-2018. Thanks to support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, I was later able to hire some of my students from this program as hourly research assistants and co-authored several conference papers with them. 

@Duke

I actively promoted East Asian Studies and international affairs since my years at Duke. As the chief editor of Duke East Asia Nexus (DEAN), an interdisciplinary journal on East Asia, I co-organized the inaugural Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit (CLS) and successfully lobbied for the creation of the East Asian Studies certificate program. I was also involved in Model United Nations (MUN), serving on the secretariat of Duke international Relations Association (DIRA) for three years. I headed up the collegiate conference division of DIRA, serving first as the Crisis Director and then as Secretary General for Duke International Security Conference (DISCon). 

I worked at the Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) for four years and was a founding member of the Duke Asian American Working Group (DAAWG), now chartered as the Duke Asian American Alliance (AAA). I also co-instructed two undergraduate seminars: Asians in America (2008-2009) and Understanding China (2010-2011). I was awarded the William J. Griffith University Service Award and the Student Affairs Leadership and Service Award in 2011 for my contributions to the university. I currently serve as the Chair of Student Affairs for the Duke Asian Alumni Alliance (DAAA).