He worked in the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classics at Butler University in 2017/18 as a future faculty teaching fellow. He received his PhD in philosophy with a minor in the history and philosophy of science from Indiana University in July 2018. Before that, he studied at Peking University in Beijing, China, receiving an MA in philosophy, a BA in philosophy, and a BA in economics. Hao’s primary research interests are metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy. He has broad teaching interests, including ethics, logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion.