Hi! I’m an anthropologist and digital ethnographer, currently based in Shanghai as an Assistant Professor at the USC–SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, a joint initiative between the University of Southern California and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

My research explores creative entrepreneurship, transnational labor, digital media, gender, and critical race studies, with a particular focus on contemporary China. My current research also examines, the cultural life of artificial intelligence in China, how AI is imagined, visualised, and experienced not only as infrastructure but also as a social force, design aesthetic, and vision of the future.

I teach and write across anthropology, digital ethnography, and the anthropology of media and technology. I hold a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, an MA in Sociology from Fudan University in Shanghai, and a BA in Social Anthropology from Panteion University in Athens. During my PhD, I was also a visiting researcher at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley.