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My research broadly lies at the intersection of law, AI, and local governance. I use computational methods to identify policy interventions that promote grassroots civic participation. I am also interested in how we can use AI to foster equitable K-12 education and close government agencies’ policy-implementation gap.

As an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, I was beyond lucky to be advised by Prof. Rada Mihalcea. Under her guidance, I studied NLP’s applications in tackling misinformation. At Stanford Law School, I have the fortune to be mentored by Prof. Julian Nyarko, with whom I apply NLP to the studies of law, history, and public policy.

My interests in public service have led me to a range of experiences, from interning at The New York Times Beijing Bureau, to serving as Counsel to the Commissioner at Namibia’s national tax agency, and to pursuing free speech litigation at the Knight First Amendment Institute in New York. I also build the crowdsourcing news tracker Surge.fm (浪潮) and did extensive K-12 outreach service at Tau Beta Pi (MI-G), the engineering honor society.