I research economic development and economic policy in East and Southeast Asia. I also have interests in the history and sociology of science in China and Germany and modern intellectual history. I am currently a fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School.

In recent years, I have been affiliated with the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University, the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, and the Fairbank Center and Weatherhead Center at Harvard University. I am a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Outside of universities, I have also worked at think tanks in Washington, DC, and with Harvard's Institute of Politics. In my past studies on the history of chemistry and physics, I worked with papers of Lise Meitner, James Franck, Fritz Haber, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and other notable scholars of the early twentieth century period.

Some of my Harvard International Review publications are listed here.