Since early 2023, I have been exploring the question of: is China going to become AGI-pilled post-ChatGPT?  This led me to a four-year study of Chinese elite discourses and policies around innovation, S&T reform, S&T strategic revamping post-containment, and AI governance. I will be pursuing this inquiry full time as a PhD candidate at King's College London under the supervision of Professor Kerry Brown starting from October 2026. Current contributions of this research to AI policy & governance debates can be found in this policy lecture at Trajectory Labs (Toronto), op-ed for The Wire China, interview with IEEE Spectrum, and tweet. 

Finalizing a manuscript on meaningful pathways for the U.S. and China to engage with each other on frontier AI risks, specifically exploring the question of how they can move from dialogues to coordination. This is achieved through a comparative study of the the U.S. and China's respective AI governance systems. My research mentor and collaborator for this project is Associate Professor Stephen Casper (Harvard Kennedy School). Previously, in 2025, I also co-authored a report with Associate Professor Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University), Saad Siddiqui, and other researchers where we identified Promising Topics for U.S.-Chinese AI Dialogues. It was accepted by the ACM FAccT conference. In the same year, I also contributed to a report led by Ben Harack (DPIR, Oxford) and Professor Robert Trager (Blavatnik School, Oxford), where we studied and proposed technical solutions for global AI governance. It was published by the Oxford Martin School.