A public affairs researcher and solo product builder who turns messy problems into products people trust.
Master's student in Public Administration at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Founder of Adapt to China, an onboarding platform for foreigners living in China.
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Based in Shanghai
I study how public systems meet people's everyday lives, as a Master's student at the School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, after four years of Public Administration at Sun Yat-sen University.
My work sits where research meets product. At Mintel I run new-product intelligence for a Nestlé dairy engagement. At Career International I turned 100+ first-hand interviews into structured talent reports. At China Media Group I made content that was watched more than 100,000 times.
And I build. Over the past year I interviewed people from more than 30 countries about settling into China, then designed, coded and launched a platform for them: one person, end to end, from user research to live paid service.
The fragmented, high-friction process of settling into China, turned into one trusted, guided system: daily-life guides, a step-by-step healthcare walkthrough, a language exchange, a crowdsourced heads-up board, and a paid ask-a-local desk.
A year of field observation and in-depth interviews with people from 30+ countries defined the product: built around the user's journey, not feature columns.
Everything shipped by one person: information architecture, UX and UI, a responsive front end in plain HTML, CSS and JS, with self-hosted fonts so it loads inside China.
A freemium model, free public knowledge feeding a paid one-to-one desk, with a B2C-to-B2B path toward universities and employers, sized (TAM, SAM, SOM) and written into a full business plan.
New-product intelligence for Nestlé dairy across street drinks and bakery. Built a standardized ingredient-coding system with multi-dimensional tags that keeps data consistent and traceable across the team, and delivered 4 monthly and 2 quarterly trend reports spanning drinks, bread, pastry and cake categories.
Conducted 100+ first-hand phone interviews and independently turned them into 10+ structured talent reports, building a reusable annotation and classification framework for mapping how leading multinationals organize, while running full-cycle candidate sourcing and screening.
Planned and reviewed multimedia content, produced a promotional video with 100,000+ plays on CMG's Yangshipin platform, handled bilingual interview transcription and translation, and wrote posts with 6,000+ reads for the Voice of the Greater Bay Area account.
School of International and Public Affairs. First-class freshman academic scholarship.
School of Government. GPA 3.7/4.0, outstanding student scholarship and academic progress award.
Ran three cohorts totaling 312 international students and faculty end to end: academic lectures, corporate field visits and cultural events, plus all-English interviews, press releases and video, including TikTok footage with 89,000+ plays.
Organized 18 systematic training sessions and staged a campus-level tournament, sharpening logical argument, team leadership and public speaking.
Mandarin (native). English: IELTS 7.5 with a perfect 9.0 in Reading, CET-6 612. Fluent spoken English, comfortable with bilingual research and reporting.
Excel (pivot tables, functions, charts) and PowerPoint. Stata, R (ggplot2, network graphs), Mplus and SPSS for cleaning, modeling and visualization. Claude and Gemini woven into daily research workflows, with hands-on prompt engineering.
In-depth interviews, large-scale text coding, case annotation and attribution analysis, and mixed qualitative-quantitative research design.
For roles, collaborations, or anything about research, product, and building for internationals in China. I read everything.