I am an ethnographer of technology and innovation, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall Business School.

Employing a combination of ethnographic, textual, and visual methods, I have studied varied groups of actors from taxi drivers in Hangzhou, to beggars in Northwestern China, to slum dwellers in Shanghai, to AI policymakers at global conferences. Through these projects, I seek to understand how individuals make sense of economic and technological changes in contemporary societies, and how they navigate a shifting landscape of precarity and opportunities. I recently authored “Platforms as if People Mattered” (Economic Anthropology, 2019) and “Uber in China” (Harvard Business Review, 2016&2017).