About me

Portrait of Li Liao
Comparative politics · Computational social science

Li Liao

PhD, University of Hong Kong

I study comparative politics, with a focus on authoritarian regimes. My research interests can be broadly categorized into three areas: (1) policy process, (2) information politics, and (3) computational methods for policy texts.

Authoritarian politics Information governance Policy text analysis

Current work

Currently, I'm writing a book about detective story and text analysis in the big data era.

Writing progress

Education

2020 – 2025 (exp.)

The University of Hong Kong

Ph.D. in Politics & Public Administration

2018 – 2020

The Ohio State University

Master of Public Administration

2014 – 2018

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

B.A. in Public Administration

Selected Work

Text 3 pieces
Network 1 piece
Information 1 piece
  • The Autocratic Intervention in Juridical Rulings

    with Kwan Nok Chan & Trevor Wan · in progress

Fun Projects

Some fun tools I wrote and I upgraded them with assistance of AI.

WebPanelView interface

WebPanelView

A browser-based tool for exploring treatment timing and missingness in panel data.

Open to collaboration

Let us build careful, transparent studies together

I am happy to chat about co-authoring, data strategy on authoritarian politics and computational methods.

Skills

  • Python
  • R
  • JavaScript
  • Stata
  • MongoDB