I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Government & Social Policy at Harvard and a J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School. My research explores the intersection of law, AI, and local politics. I use computational methods to design and evaluate policy interventions that foster grassroots civic participation and strengthen institutional capacity.
Before grad school, I studied computer science at the University of Michigan and worked as an NLP research fellow at Stanford, where I deployed machine learning to study law and public policy.
Contact
zli@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Subfields
American Politics | Comparative Politics | Methods and Formal Theory
Academic Interests
Bureaucracy | Civil Society and Social Movements | Data Science & Political Methodology | Judiciary & Public Law | Public Opinion | Social Policy & the Welfare State | Technology & Governance
Research Methods
Normative Political Thought | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods