I am a PhD candidate in Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School, currently on the 2025 job market. My research draws on psychology and organizational behavior to understand how individuals learn, become who they are, and thrive in professional and cultural contexts. In 2024 fall – 2025 spring, I studied abroad as a visiting PhD student in Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Before pursuing my PhD degree, I received an MEng in Applied Psychology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a BEng with BA (minor) in Business Administration (granted by Shanghai Jiaotong University) from Ningxia University.

I previously worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and as a Senior Research Assistant at Hong Kong Baptist University.

I pursue two main lines of inquiry. The first seeks to understand how individuals learn from success and failure—whether experienced personally or observed in others. In this line of research, I study how the binary success-failure performance evaluation can mislead individuals in selecting learning sources. I also examine how, when we learn from our own experiences, goal setting plays a role and interacts with the success or failure feedback. This line of research contributes to the literature on vicarious learning, attribution, advice seeking, and goal setting.

The second line of work studies how we become different across cultural contexts. I examine culture and its consequences for our thinking style, our relationships with others, and how we come to define who we are. I also focus particularly on how individuals with different cultural backgrounds become professionals in the workplace. This second line of research contributes to the literature on cultural variations in psychological constructs, such as thinking style, social comparison, happiness, and self-construal, and in sociocultural processes, such as professionalization.