Songpo Yang

Songpo Yang is a Boya Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Studies, Peking University, and serves as Assistant Director of the PKU Analytics Lab for Global Risk Politics. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tsinghua University (2025), an M.A. in International Economics and China Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS (2020), an M.L. in International Politics from Tsinghua University (2020), and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of International Business and Economics (2017). His research interests include elite politics, Chinese politics, global governance, LLM-based information extraction, multimodal measurement, causal inference, and experiments. He has published in journals such as American Political Science Review and International Affairs. He previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Center for U.S.-China Relations, Tsinghua University, and as a Senior Associate at CITIC Securities Asset Management.