Previously, he was the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a visiting scholar at the George Washington School of Business in the Strategic Management and Public Policy department, a visiting scholar at the School of Government at Beijing University and the Shandong Institute of East Asian Studies in Jinan, China. His research utilizes several types of big data and concerns the political economy of development, global value chains with a focus on East Asia and China, comparative capitalisms and industrial policy. His work has been funded by a Fulbright fellowship, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, the National Security Education Program and the Blakemore Foundation.