Hi, I’m Xinzhuo. I am currently an M.Phil. student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the guidance of Prof. Cai Yongshun and Prof. Zhang Han.
My research interests lie in the Chinese government and politics. I have worked in multiple levels of the Chinese government, providing me with a firsthand understanding of its operations.
I am proficient in utilizing R and Python throughout all stages of data analysis, which is attributed to my participation and leadership in several real-world research projects.
I have collected over one hundred million data points pertaining to China by web scraping from various websites and apps, including the largest collection of Chinese police administrative penalty documents to date, as well as petition and legal document data.
Welcome to browse my resume, recent blog posts, datasets, research projects, and R packages. Also, check out the visualizations based on real-world data.
Education
M.Phil. in Social Science, currently enrolled
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Full ScholarshipsM.Sc. in Global China Studies, 2022
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Dean’s AwardLL.B. in Political Science (major) and Law (minor), 2020
East China University of Political Science and Law, China
Outstanding Graduation Thesis Award
Outstanding Graduate Award
Interests
- Chinese Politics
- responsiveness
- social protest
- Application of ML
- text analysis
- causal inference
- Data Engineering
- web scraping
- data visualization