Research on organizations, strategy, and platform governance.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Management (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, platform governance, and organizational learning.

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.

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Research

Projects and agenda

Job market paper

Data-Making Fans and Platform Governance

Integrates interviews, participant observation, archival evidence, scraped social media data, and system dynamics modeling to explain a coordination trap among fans, idol agencies, brands, and platforms. Joint work with Vicky Chuqiao Yang.

Presented at AOM 2026, ASA 2025, INAS 2025, EGOS 2025, and ISDC 2025

Solo-authored working paper

The Toxicity in Tolerance

Uses an agent-based model to show how in-group tolerance can preserve disagreement while enabling an extreme minority to shape collective action.

Presented previously as "From Opinion Dynamics to Collective Action" at PaCSS 2022, ASA 2023, and INAS 2023

Working paper

From Composition to Conduct in the Boardroom

Examines how heterogeneous evaluation criteria and issue interdependence shape repeated voting in the boardroom. Joint work with Inada Takahiro.

Presented at AOM 2026

Research areas

  • Organization theory, strategy, and economic sociology
  • Platform governance and digitally mediated coordination
  • Political polarization, collective action, and organizational learning
  • Agent-based simulation and computational social science

Ongoing research

  • Algorithmic agency and data-making in fan organizations
  • Policy expertise under political disruption
  • Organizational resilience through emergent specialization

Teaching

Classroom and mentoring

2022-2026

MIT Sloan School of Management

Teaching Assistant for 15.339 Developing Leadership Capabilities (2022, 2025, 2026; MBA), 15.716 Leading Organizations (2024, 2025; Executive MBA), 15.900 Competitive Strategy (2025; undergraduate and MBA), and 15.347 Designing Empirical Research in the Social Sciences (2026; doctoral).

2020-2021

University of Chicago

Teaching Assistant for MACS 30100 Perspectives on Computational Modeling (2021; master's students, graduate core requirement) and American Colonial Economic History (2020; undergraduate students).

2017-2018

University of Michigan

Peer Advisor in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, mentoring 26 students and leading seminars on research ethics and statistical methods.

Service

Scholarly service

Review activity

Ad hoc reviewer for American Sociological Review (2026), MIS Quarterly (2025), the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2025), and the International System Dynamics Conference (2025).

Beyond Work

Making habitats and toys for my hamster

I started making habitats and toys because many products are unclear about whether their materials are safe. Designing for my hamster lets me work more carefully and concretely, and it has become a hands-on practice that echoes how I approach research: holding system-level structure and fine-grained detail in view at the same time.

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