Research Interests

My primary research interest is managerial cognition in strategic management, especially subjective time, which refers to managers/firms’ subjective feelings, orientation, and perception of time. Subjective time constitutes a fundamental dimension of strategic decision making and I treat it as an angle for micro-foundation exploration in strategy research. My research mainly focuses on expanding the research concepts and contexts regarding subjective time in strategy. Specifically, my work in this field theorizes and empirically examines new temporal concepts such as temporal duration perception (subjective assessments of how long an event will last or its impact will last). Additionally, my work also introduces subjective time research into novel contexts such as multi-firm interactions. In these studies, I mainly adopt Natural Language Processing methods to capture temporal measurements from firms’ public language. In addition, I also have some research experience in the field of entrepreneurship, such as entrepreneurs’ job satisfaction and immigrant entrepreneurs.

Prior Education

MA in Human Resource Management, Renmin University of China

Personal Information

I was a blogger on WeChat Public platform during my master’s degree. I shared my original articles regarding my thoughts on social issues, news comments, and book/movie recommendations on the platform. For example, one of the most popular articles was my thoughts on Chinese decreasing marriage rate and birth rate. After about six-month operation, I owned several hundred followers and received thousands of likes.

Why RPI?

I chose Lally School in RPI because it can provide me not only management theoretical thinking skills in an elite PhD program, but also state-of-art technology training supporting my research method and analysis requirement with its technical environment. I did receive some ML/AI training and have applied them to my own research!