Eight entries between 2022 and 2026: academic research, project finance, consulting internships, teaching, and one published paper. The order is roughly chronological, except when grouping makes more sense than time.
A four-month technoeconomic brief on where quantum technologies could create material value in energy, and on what timeline. Our six-person team compared grid optimization, nuclear research, battery chemistry, enhanced solar, energy finance, and quantum sensing through a shared three-axis framework.
Coursework built around a redacted real-project case: contract reviews and an individual wind model covering operating cash flow, PTCs, debt sculpting, P50/P99 cases, and scenario analysis.
Teaching support for Lisa Sachs's graduate course on the architecture of climate finance: blended and concessional capital, debt sustainability, carbon markets, the UNFCCC framework, and cost-of-capital drivers in emerging markets.
Portfolio-level account of a climate-investing internship: scenario modeling, public-source market research, and more reliable investment-data workflows. Live deal terms, fundraising information, counterparties, and relationship records are omitted.
Signature Work under Prof. Andrew Macdonald: 1,161 articles across four newspapers, central (People's Daily, Global Times) against Shanghai-local (Jiefang Daily, Xinmin Evening Post), over the April to June 2022 lockdown. LDA topic modeling plus hand-coded content analysis. Finds coordinated but stratified strategies, with 91% of the hand-coded local-media sample from May using a resilience frame.
Co-authored with Jason Gainous, Mayra Vélez-Serrano, Kevin M. Wagner, Jialong Wang, You Wu, and Weiheng "Mark" Liu. We analyzed Puerto Rican legislators' Twitter communications from 2014 to 2021 across 43 corruption scandals, combining topic models with a Spanish corruption dictionary and legislator-level models of party status and sentiment. Published OnlineFirst in International Political Science Review on May 9, 2026. DOI: 10.1177/01925121261429933.
Crisis and Security Consulting team. Work included physical-security analysis, financial-regulation research, incident research, mitigation planning, and a scenario-based crisis exercise. Client identities and engagement details are generalized.
Signed up for a research internship; landed in a Shenzhen branch office where the day-to-day was sales calls, client onboarding paperwork, and product-pitch prep. Left after three weeks. Honest about it because the lesson has saved me twice since: research-track and sales-track are a distinction the job title doesn't capture.