Public Scholarship

Public writing

• How Chinese Citizens See Social Credit?Aug 2022UC San Diego China Data Lab
• Is My Fieldwork Sensitive?2022States, Power, & Societies, 9–10

Invited talks

• Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit SystemNov 2026The Social Justice for Data Science Lecture Series, Boston University
• Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit SystemOct 2026LRCCS Noon Lecture Series, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
• AI Perception in ChinaJul 2026Annual National Symposium on Equitable AI, Morgan State University
• Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit SystemNov 2025History, Culture, and Society Workshop, Harvard University
• Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit SystemOct 2025Information Society Project, Yale University
• DeepSeek’s Secret Sauce? Why the Potential Value of Data Work Remains Hidden in Plain SightApr 2025Responsible AI Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University · with Mary Gray, Sonam Jindal & Kasia Chmielinski
• A Relational Approach of Trust in AIJan 2025CRC in Digital Regulation at Work and Life, UQÀM · with Zheng Fu
• The Political Data Work and the Co-Production of Data-Driven SystemsNov 2024Center for Digital Governance, Hertie School
• Knowing China from FieldworkAug 2024Overseas Young Chinese Forum, UC San Diego
• Following Data in the Authoritarian StateApr 2024Society for Economic Anthropology & Society for the Anthropology of Work
• The Myth of the Chinese Social Credit SystemApr 2024Ethical Tech Working Group, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
• Following Data in the Authoritarian StateApr 2024Digital Ethnography Working Group, Rutgers University
• Understanding AI via DataMar 2024Interdisciplinary Research in Technology & Society Symposium, Tufts University
• Sense and SensitivityMar 2022Doing China-Related Research in COVID-19, RMIT
• Surveillance StatismMay 2021The Digital State, King’s College London