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My name is Yixin (pronounced "ee-SHEEN"). I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University.

My research examines when and why gendered advantages become liabilities, and disadvantages become assets, revealing how workplace judgments go awry. I show how gendered expectations create, constrain, and reverse patterns of advantage and disadvantage at work: leadership advantages for women at the top can curdle into liabilities, stereotypical disadvantages for women can become financial and career assets, and men’s presumed advantages in fit and behavioral latitude are produced by organizational priorities but constrained by culture. Across these cases, what counts as an advantage depends on what the context values and expects. Importantly, my scholarship aims to translate these insights into actionable, evidence-based interventions for evaluators to reduce bias and make fairer, more accurate high-stakes hiring and promotion decisions.

My research employs an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach, including laboratory and field experiments, multi-wave multi-source organizational surveys, archival data, and AI-based simulations.