Employment

Johns Hopkins University

Assistant Professor 2025–

Miller Postdoctoral Fellow 2023–25

Education

Princeton University, PhD in Philosophy 2018–23

Peking University, MA in Philosophy 2015–18

Peking University (Yuanpei College), BA in Philosophy 2011–15

Awards

Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship 2022–23

Service

Journal referee: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Philosophers’ Imprint, Res Philosophica

Member of the Executive Committee, Leibniz Society of North America (2024–28)

Co-organizer for the annual Hopkins Seminar in Early Modern & Medieval Philosophy (2023—)

Recent & Upcoming Talks

A paper on Leibniz’s theory of modality, The Society for Early Modern Philosophy (SEMPY), Yale, 2026

“Leibniz on the Duality of Probability,” Colloquium, Central APA 2026, Chicago

Symposium commentator on “Contingency in Leibniz’s Philosophical Theology,“ Eastern APA 2026, Baltimore

Comments on “Where’s the Goodness in Leibniz’s Teleology?” LSNA Annual Conference 2025. Raleigh

Comments on “Arriaga and Compton Carleton on Spatial Parts," Forum Descartes, 2025

“The Foundations of Hobbes’s Philosophy,” Workshop on Newton and Newtonianism, 2024, JHU

“Leibniz’s Philosophical Methodology and His Philosophy,” LSNA-SELLF Joint Conference, 2024, Paris

An older recorded talk:

“Spinoza on Conatus and the Impossibility of Suicide,” Departmental Colloquium, IU-Bloomington, 2023 (Youtube)