EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
Dissertation Committee: John Zysman (Chair), Kevin O’Brien, Laura D. Tyson
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
M.A. University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy & Strategy
B.A. Stanford University, International Relations
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of California, Berkeley (2012-Present)
Continuing Lecturer, Global Studies and Political Economy
Lecturer, Political Science Department
Lecturer, Sociology Department
Instructor, UC Extension Fall Program for Freshman
College of Marin, Kentfield, CA (2013 – 2017)
Instructor, History and Political Science Department
Dominican University of California (2013-2014)
Adjunct Professor, Political Science and International Studies Department
Mills College, Oakland, CA (2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Government Department
San Francisco State University (2012)
Lecturer, International Relations Department
Stanford University (2011-2012)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
INDUSTRY POSITIONS
Conference Facilitator, Kaiser Permanente Foundation, South San Francisco, CA (2007-2017)
Summer Intern, Global Business Network, San Francisco, CA (2006-2007)
Product Manager, Tyan Computer, Shanghai, China (2002-2004)
Investment Analyst, Harbinger Venture Management, Santa Clara, CA (2000-2002)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Political Economy Program Faculty Advisory Committee (2023-present)
Founding Member, Global Studies Curriculum Committee (2022-present)
Co-Chair, University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) Local 1474 (2021-2022)
President, Stanford Club of Marin (2020-2022)
Steering Committee Member, Lecturer Engagement Advancement Development (LEAD) Network (2019-2021)
Executive Board Member, University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) Local 1474 (2019-2023)
Faculty Advisor, Research, Teaching and Learning Committee, UC Berkeley (2018-2023)
Steering Committee Member, World Affairs Marin Chapter (2015-2023)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Teaching & Learning Conference, University of California, Berkeley (2023-2024)
Program Participant for Testing Audience Response Systems in the Classroom, University of
California, Berkeley (2017-2020)
Grading for Equity Workshops, University of California, Berkeley (2020)
Digital Pedagogy Fellows Program, University of California, Berkeley (2017)
Data Science Pedagogy and Practice: A Summer Workshop (2017)
Berkeley International Student Program, University of California, Berkeley (2013-2015)
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, University of California, Berkeley (2007-2011)
Teaching Conference for Graduate Student Instructors, University of California, Berkeley (2010)
INVITED LECTURES AND TESTIMONIES
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK REVIEWS
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
LANGUAGES
Mandarin Chinese: Fluent speaking and proficient writing
French: Intermediate speaking and writing
Spanish: Elementary speaking and writing
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
Dissertation Committee: John Zysman (Chair), Kevin O’Brien, Laura D. Tyson
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Political Science
M.A. University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy & Strategy
B.A. Stanford University, International Relations
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of California, Berkeley (2012-Present)
Continuing Lecturer, Global Studies and Political Economy
Lecturer, Political Science Department
Lecturer, Sociology Department
Instructor, UC Extension Fall Program for Freshman
College of Marin, Kentfield, CA (2013 – 2017)
Instructor, History and Political Science Department
Dominican University of California (2013-2014)
Adjunct Professor, Political Science and International Studies Department
Mills College, Oakland, CA (2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Government Department
San Francisco State University (2012)
Lecturer, International Relations Department
Stanford University (2011-2012)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
INDUSTRY POSITIONS
Conference Facilitator, Kaiser Permanente Foundation, South San Francisco, CA (2007-2017)
Summer Intern, Global Business Network, San Francisco, CA (2006-2007)
Product Manager, Tyan Computer, Shanghai, China (2002-2004)
Investment Analyst, Harbinger Venture Management, Santa Clara, CA (2000-2002)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Political Economy Program Faculty Advisory Committee (2023-present)
Founding Member, Global Studies Curriculum Committee (2022-present)
Co-Chair, University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) Local 1474 (2021-2022)
President, Stanford Club of Marin (2020-2022)
Steering Committee Member, Lecturer Engagement Advancement Development (LEAD) Network (2019-2021)
Executive Board Member, University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) Local 1474 (2019-2023)
Faculty Advisor, Research, Teaching and Learning Committee, UC Berkeley (2018-2023)
Steering Committee Member, World Affairs Marin Chapter (2015-2023)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Teaching & Learning Conference, University of California, Berkeley (2023-2024)
Program Participant for Testing Audience Response Systems in the Classroom, University of
California, Berkeley (2017-2020)
Grading for Equity Workshops, University of California, Berkeley (2020)
Digital Pedagogy Fellows Program, University of California, Berkeley (2017)
Data Science Pedagogy and Practice: A Summer Workshop (2017)
Berkeley International Student Program, University of California, Berkeley (2013-2015)
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, University of California, Berkeley (2007-2011)
Teaching Conference for Graduate Student Instructors, University of California, Berkeley (2010)
INVITED LECTURES AND TESTIMONIES
- "Decoding Silicon Valley: The Five Foundational Forces Driving the World's Leading Innovation Ecosystem" and "AI in 2025: Progress, Promise and Perils", BI Norwegian Business School, Spinnaker Restaurant, Mill Valley, CA, March 16, 2025.
- "What Makes Silicon Valley Silicon Valley?" MESGO (The Executive Master in Global Sport Governance), Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, April 23, 2024.
- "Teaching with Multimedia Team Video Projects: Cultivating Research, Public Speaking, and Creative Thinking Skills in Collaborative Settings," Center for Teaching and Learning Conference, May 5, 2023.
- "A Tale of 'One Country, Two Systems': The Uncertain Future of Hong Kong," Marin Chapter of World Affairs, Jul 21, 2020.
- "Xi Jinping, his China Dream, and the Future of the US-China Relationship," Rotary Club of Central Marin, July 2, 2019.
- "Using Oxford-Style Debates to Teach Research Skills, Encourage Teamwork, and Practice Public Speaking," 2019 Showcase for Teaching Innovation and Reinvention (STIR), UC Berkeley, June 14, 2019.
- "Teaching with Student Response Systems," 2018 Showcase for Teaching Innovation and Reinvention (STIR), UC Berkeley, January 18, 2018.
- "Why Hasn't China Produced the Next Toyota?" Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Group, Fremont, CA, August 21, 2017.
- "Trump's 'Fire and Fury' Foreign Policy: The Uncertain Future of the Sino-American Relationship", Rotary Club or Sausalito, CA, August 10, 2017.
- “Will Xi Trump Tsai? The Future of the Sino-American Relationship,” World Affairs Sonoma Chapter, Sonoma, CA, April 7, 2017.
- “The Election of Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan and the Implications for the Fragile Sino-AmericaN Relationship,” Rotary Club of Mill Valley, Mill Valley, CA, August 23, 2016.
- “China’s 13th Five Year Plan: Implications for the Automobile Industry,” Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Washington, D.C., April 27, 2016.
- “The Election of Tsai Ing-wen and the Future of Sino-American Relations,” World Affairs Council Marin Chapter, June 2, 2016.
- “Corruption in China: Will it Bring the Party Down?” League of Women Voters of Marin County, San Rafael, CA, January 26, 2015.
- “How a Rising China Views the World,” League of Women Voters of Marin County, San Rafael, January 27, 2014.
- “The Crossroads of China’s Economy”, Panelist, Berkeley China Forum 2013, UC Berkeley, November 17, 2013.
- “Inside the Black Box: Decision-making in Modern China,” Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, October 16, 2013.
- “China’s New Leadership and Chinese Foreign Policy,” World Affairs Council Sonoma Chapter,June 14, 2013.
- “China’s New Leadership: Who’s In and Hu’s Out?,” World Affairs Council Marin Chapter, January 31, 2013.
PUBLICATIONS
- "How the Pandemic Pushes Contingent Faculty to the Precipice," The Quad Magazine, June 5, 2020.
- “China: Green Technologies, Brown Processes,” in John Zysman and Mark Huberty (eds.), Can Green Sustain Growth? From Religion to Reality of Sustainable Prosperity, Stanford, California: Stanford Business Books,2013.
- “Center-Local Politics and the Limits of China’s Production Model: Why China’s Innovation Challenge Is Overstated”, in Dan Breznitz and John Zysman (eds.), The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century? New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- “China and South Asia: Strategic implications and economic imperatives,” with Lawrence Sáez, in Lowell Dittmer and George Yu (eds.), China, the Developing World, and the New Global Dynamic, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Press, 2010.
- "The political economy of global firms from India and China,” with Lawrence Sáez, Contemporary Politics, 15(3): 265-286, 2009.
BOOK REVIEWS
- “Chinese Multinationals edited by Jean-Paul Larson” (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2008)”, in Journal of East Asian Studies, 15(2): 300-302, May-August 2012.
- “Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China by Martin Dimitrov (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)”, in Journal of Chinese Political Science, July 2011.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
- “The Changing Role of the State in the Age of Globalization: The Unlikely Emergence of China’s Independent Auto Industry,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, April 1-3, 2010.
- “The Chinese State in the Age of Globalization: The Unexpected Emergence of China’s Independent Auto Industry,” Paper presented at the 13th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, February 26-28, 2010.
- “Developing Strategies in a Global Economy: The Unexpected Emergence of China’s Indigenous Auto Industry,” Paper presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009.
- “Intellectual Property Right Reform in India and China: The Race between the Tortoise and the Hare?” Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Political Science Graduate Student Research Conference, University of California, Berkeley, April 20 2006.
- “Intellectual Property Rights in a Developing Context: A Comparative Study of China and India,” Paper presented at the 4th Annual East-West International Graduate Student Conference, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, February 17-19, 2006.
LANGUAGES
Mandarin Chinese: Fluent speaking and proficient writing
French: Intermediate speaking and writing
Spanish: Elementary speaking and writing