Eight pieces of work from 2022 to 2026: academic research, project finance, consulting, teaching, and one peer-reviewed paper that finally reached publication. They are roughly chronological, except where related work belongs together.
For four months, our six-person team asked where quantum technologies might actually matter to the energy industry—and how soon. A common three-part framework let us compare six applications without pretending that technical promise and commercial readiness were the same thing.
A set of individual assignments built from a redacted wind-project case: contract reviews, tax exercises, and a financial model linking operating cash flow, PTCs, sculpted debt, and P50/P99 cases.
I supported Lisa Sachs's graduate course on how climate finance is built and constrained: blended and concessional capital, sovereign debt, carbon markets, the UNFCCC system, and the cost of capital in emerging markets.
During a climate-investing internship, I worked on scenario models, public-source market research, and the quiet data systems that keep a small investment team from losing context. Nonpublic deal and relationship details stay off this site.
My undergraduate thesis read 1,161 articles from two central and two Shanghai newspapers across the 2022 lockdown. Topic models and hand coding showed a coordinated division of labor; in the hand-coded May sample, 91% of local coverage used a resilience frame.
A co-authored study of how Puerto Rican politicians spoke—or chose not to speak—around 43 corruption scandals from 2014 to 2021. We combined topic models, a Spanish corruption dictionary, and legislator-level analysis. Published OnlineFirst by International Political Science Review in May 2026.
On the Crisis and Security Consulting team, I worked on site security, financial regulation, incident research, mitigation plans, and a crisis exercise. The lasting lesson was how to turn a large, uncertain world into a decision without pretending the uncertainty away.
I applied for a research internship and arrived at a Shenzhen branch office doing sales calls, onboarding forms, and product-pitch preparation. I left after three weeks. The lesson has saved me more than once since: a job title tells you remarkably little about an ordinary Tuesday.