2024-2025
May 16
“Broken Promises: Ride-hailing and the Failure of Technological Solutionism,” Princeton University.
May 7
“Labor as Optimal Subject: Digital Platforms and Techno-Politics in China,” Otago University.
April 26
“Understanding the Gig Economy: Platforms, Labor, and Techno-Politics,” King’s College London.
April 22
“From Medallions to Data: Corporate-State Relationship in China’s Digital Industry,” Princeton University.
April 17
“From Calculation to Coercion: When Optimization Meets Authoritarianism,” Princeton University.
Feb 1
“Conducting Ethnographic Research in China’s Digital Industry: Experience, Challenges, and Practical Solutions,” an invited presentation at the Workshop of Thirty Years of the Internet in China, University of Pennsylvania.
2023-2024
Nov 30
“China’s Gig Economy: Forced Labor, Externalization, the Failures of Regulations,” Simon Fraser University.
Oct 27
“The Unkept Promises of Fixing: Ride-hailing and the Failures of Digital Innovation,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Oct 12
“The Unkept Promises of Fixing: Ride-hailing and the Failures of Digital Innovation,” Princeton University.
Mar 17
“Working with Machines: Human Values, Algorithmic Unfitness, and Labor Repair Behind the Wall,” National University of Singapore.
2021-2022
May 12
"Bring Political Economy back to Algorithmic Analysis,” an invited presentation at SG Research Nexus, National University of Singapore.
April 21
“Beyond Precarity: Forced Labor in China’s Gig Economy and the Logics of Externalization,” an invited talk at East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.