About

I am a fellow and co-director of the China AI Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where my work explores the geopolitics and governance of advanced AI systems. I specialize in China’s AI ecosystem, with a particular focus on U.S.-China AI dialogue and diplomacy, U.S. and Chinese approaches to AI strategy, and comparative approaches to AI safety and risk management.

I previously served as lead writer of the California Report on Frontier AI Policy, commissioned by California Governor Gavin Newsom, which informed SB-53—the United States' first law governing frontier AI systems. I was also a writer on the second International AI Safety Report, led by Professor Yoshua Bengio, which offers the most comprehensive global scientific assessment of frontier AI risks and governance to date.

I co-founded the Oxford China Policy Lab and am an affiliate of the Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative. My work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Science, and The Washington Post. My research and expertise have been featured in outlets including The Atlantic, BBC, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, The Guardian, NBC News, The New York Times, Nikkei Asia, POLITICO, SCMP, TIME, Transformer, The Verge, Vox, WIRED, and The Wire China.

I hold a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where I was a Clarendon Scholar, and a BA in Economics and Fundamentals: Issues and Texts from the University of Chicago. I was a National Bureau of Asian Research Chinese Language Fellow at the International Chinese Language Program in Taipei and am professionally fluent in Mandarin.