Publications

Political science:

1. State Media Control Influences Large Language Models, with Hannah Waight, Yin Yuan, Solomon Messing, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon Stewart, Joshua Tucker. Nature (2026). pdf
- Media coverage: AP, NPR, NYT, WSJ, Washington Post

2. The Limits of AI for Authoritarian Control. American Journal of Political Science (2026). pdf
- Media coverage: Frankfurt Allgemeine

3. The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science, with Ruixue Jia, Margaret E. Roberts, Ye Wang. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). pdf
- Media coverage: FAS, The Diplomat, CSIS

4. The Authoritarian Data Problem: How the Politics of Data Shapes AI, with Margaret E. Roberts. Journal of Democracy (2023). pdf

5. Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing, with Yiqing Xu. Political Analysis (2023). pdf, software

Interdisciplinary:

6. Perceiving Techno-Legality: Social Attitudes towards the Judicial Use of Artificial Intelligence in China and the United States, with Xinbo Lin, Lawrence J. Liu, Jinhua Cheng, Han Liu, and Taisu Zhang. American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming). pdf

7. Sci2Pol: Evaluating and Fine-tuning LLMs on Scientific-to-Policy Brief Generation, with Weimin Wu, Alexander Furnas, Gefei Liu, Akhil Pandey Akella, Xuefeng Song, Dashun Wang, Han Liu. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026). pdf

8. Discovering Influential Text Using Convolutional Neural Networks, with Megan Ayers, Luke Sanford, Margaret E. Roberts. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024). pdf

9. Censorship of Online Encyclopedias: Implications for NLP Models, with Margaret E. Roberts. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2021). pdf, replication
- Media coverage: Wired. Best Student Paper Award.

Working Papers

1. Bayesian and Motivated Reasoning in AI Agents. pdf

2. Data Annotation with Large Language Models: Lessons from a Large Empirical Evaluation, with Zoey Wang, Carl Zhou, Yaosheng Xu. American Journal of Political Science (conditionally accepted). pdf, software

3. Motivated Updating: Power, Race, and the Limits of Intergroup Contact in the U.S. Military, with Salma Mousa

If you are using AI, Markdown versions of my papers are available here.