I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economic Sociology at MIT Sloan School of Management and an MIT Presidential Graduate Fellow. I study how individual-level interactions affect organization-level outcomes, especially in settings like political polarization and platform governance.
My work combines formal modeling (e.g., agent-based modeling, system dynamics, network analysis, natural language processing) and qualitative research (e.g., interviews and participatory observation) for management and sociology audiences.
Supervised by Professors Ezra Zuckerman Sivan and Ray Reagans at MIT.
Research
Job market paper
Studies how fan labor, informal data practices, and platform governance co-evolve in digitally mediated communities, with implications for platform strategy, governance design, and organizational adaptation. Joint work with Vicky Chuqiao Yang.
Candidacy paper
Examines how asymmetric tolerance can turn disagreement into durable polarization, linking micro-level opinion dynamics to collective action.
Working paper
A dynamic NK model of board behavior, bringing simulation methods to questions of board composition, conduct, and decision-making. Joint work with INADA Takahiro.
Teaching
2022-2026
Teaching Assistant for 15.339 Developing Leadership Capabilities (2022, 2025, 2026), 15.716 Leading Organizations (2024, 2025), 15.900 Competitive Strategy (2025), and 15.347 Designing Empirical Research in the Social Sciences (2026).
2020-2021
Teaching Assistant for MACS 30100 Perspectives on Computational Modeling (2021), a graduate core course in the Computational Social Science program, and American Colonial Economic History (2020).
2017-2018
Peer Advisor in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, mentoring 26 students and leading seminars on research ethics and statistical methods.
Service
Reviewer for American Sociological Review, MIS Quarterly, the Academy of Management Conference, and the International System Dynamics Conference.