Welcome!I am a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, I hold research interests in comparative politics , computational social science, and International relations.
About
My academic background departs from regional studies and data science, where I earned an M.S. in Information (Data Science & Big Data Analytics) and an M.A. in International & Regional Studies (MENA) at the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in Modern Hebrew at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
My research centers on contentious politics and identity politics in the Middle East and North Africa. I am especially interested in political behavior, and how religion and identity are mobilized in political discourse. Methodologically, I hold great interest in using text-as-data, combining natural language processing, causal inference, and comparative analysis with sustained fieldwork and close attention to regional context.Skills & Languages
Python, R, SQL, Tableau
Time-series analysis, causal inference & survey experiment, machine learning, NLP & topic modeling
Chinese (native), English (proficient), Hebrew (proficient), Modern Standard Arabic (fluent), Levantine Arabic (intermediate)