Her research focuses on globalization and politics in China and India. Her publications include Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and The Making of Northeast Asia (coau. Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Prof. Ye was a Post-doctoral fellow of Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program in 2009-2010, the Director of East Asian Studies Program at BU in 2010-2014, and a Public Intellectual Program fellow at the National Committee on U.S-China Relations, 2014-2016. She currently serves as the director of undergraduate studies at Pardee School, a faculty advisor of BU’s Initiative on Cities, a member of the faculty council of Harvard’s Yenching Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.