QCSS-2022 Organizers

Faculty Sponsors

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (Professor of Politics, NYU Politics Department)

Arturas Rozenas (Associate Professor of Politics, NYU Politics Department)

Congyi Zhou (Assistant Professor of Politics, NYU Politics Department)

Organizing Committee

Cheng Cheng (Ph.D. student, NYU Politics Department)

Mengfan Cheng (Ph.D. student, NYU Politics Department)

Ning He (Ph.D. student, NYU Politics Department)

He Niu (Ph.D. student, NYU Politics Department)

Victoria Wang (Ph.D. student, NYU Politics Department)

Sophie Xiangqian Yi (Ph.D. candidate, NYU Politics Department)

Coordinators

Ning He

Ning is a PhD student in the Department of Politics at New York University. His research interests are comparative politics and historical political economy. Before coming to NYU, he completed an MPhil in social science at HKUST, a bachelor and a master's degree in public administration at Fudan University. Ning's recent research focuses on state violence, bureaucracy, and military mobilization in civil and international conflicts. In his research, he draws historical and contemporary data at the micro-level to answer general theoretical questions about politics.

Sophie Xiangqian Yi

"Sophie" Xiangqian Yi is a Ph.D. candidate in the NYU Department of Politics. Her current research focuses on public opinion, mass media, and political psychology in authoritarian contexts. Before entering the Ph.D. program, she earned a BA in economics at Peking University and an MA in economics at NYU.