Hui-Yuan Neo is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Digital Ethics Center. She holds a PhD (‘25) in Government from Cornell University and a B.A. (‘19) in Political Science with High Honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Outside of research, she has also consulted for the World Bank as a Digital Governance Specialist.
She specializes in comparative politics with a focus on authoritarian politics, information control, data transparency, and the digital economy. Her book project examines how authoritarian regimes balance between the economic benefits and political threats posed by data sharing initiatives when developing their digital economies. She analyzes the strategies through which these regimes control information flow under conditions of increased data openness. She employs mixed-methods in her research, drawing on a combination of large-N quantitative analysis, unsupervised machine learning, experimental data, and interview evidence to test her theories.