I am an assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

I study international security and political violence. My research focuses on the dynamics of war and nuclear politics, as well as the legacies of violence and post-conflict peacebuilding.

I examine two broad questions:

[1] How does exposure to violence transform individuals, societies, and states?

[2] What policy interventions foster peace and cooperation in post-conflict settings?

I employ design-based causal inference, drawing on surveys, incentivized behavioral games, and field experiments. I conduct extensive field research and collect original data among hard-to-reach populations affected by violence, including atomic bomb survivors, Agent Orange survivors, and North Korean defectors.

I collaborate with governments, NGOs, and local partners to design and evaluate interventions, with the broader goal of advancing evidence-based policymaking in international security and post-conflict settings.

Here is my Google Scholar page.

My articles are published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Political Studies, The Nonproliferation Review, and Asian Survey.