Chao-Yo Cheng 4289 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 ccheng11@ucla.edu https://denniscycheng.wordpress.com/ EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, expected 2018 Committee: Michael Thies (chair), Barbara Geddes, Daniel Treisman, Chad Hazlett, and Susan Shirk (UCSD) Dissertation: Autonomy in Autocracy: Explaining Ethnic Policies in Post-1949 China M.S. Student in Statistics, expected 2018 Columbia University M.A. in Political Science, 2011 National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan) B.A. in Political Science and Journalism (graduated first), 2008 National University of Ireland, Galway Visiting Student in Political Science and Sociology, 2007 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Exchange Student, International Asian Studies Programme (IASP), 2005-6 RESEARCH INTERESTS Asian politics (China and India); authoritarianism; political institutions; ethnic politics; political economy of development; formal model and quantitative methodology PUBLICATION Peer-reviewed Articles Factors Affecting Household Satisfaction with Electricity Supply in Rural India. Nature Energy 1 (16170) (with Michael Aklin, Karthik Ganesan, Abhishek Jain, and Johannes Urpelainen), November 2016. Unawareness and Indifference to Economic Reform among the Public: Evidence from India s Power Sector Reform. Economics of Governance 17 (3): 211-239 (with Johannes Urpelainen), August 2016. Support for Renewable Energy in China: A Survey Experiment with Internet Users. Journal of Cleaner Production 112 (5): 3750-3758 (with Dingding Chen and Johannes Urpelainen), January 2016. 1
Who Should Take the Garbage Out? Public Opinion on Waste Management in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Habitat International 46 : 111-118 (with Johannes Urpelainen), April 2015. Fuel Stacking in India: Changes in the Cooking and Lighting Mix, 1987-2010. Energy: The International Journal 76 (1): 306-317 (with Johannes Urpelainen), November 2014. Party Newspapers Layouts and Elite Interaction: People s Daily and PLA Daily as Examples. Chinese Political Science Review 42 : 37-78 (with Chien-wen Kou), December 2006. In Chinese. Policy Reports Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: A Survey of States. Council on Electricity, Energy, and Water (Delhi, India) and Columbia University (with Abhishek Jain, Sudatta Ray, Karthik Ganesan, Michael Aklin, and Johannes Urpelainen), September 2015. Invited Contributions Access to Energy in Rural India: A Survey of Six States. Ideas for India (with Abhishek Jain and Johannes Urpelainen), January 2016, http://www.ideasforindia. in/article.aspx?article_id=1568. Poverty Alleviation and Development in Xinjiang. Chinese Law & Government 44 (6): 3-9, December 2011. Taiwan National Science Council Research Projects Provincial Political Elites in China during the Reform Era: Case Studies of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing (NSC 96-2815-C-004-006-H), September 2007- March 2008. In Chinese. Analyzing Elite Politics of PRC Government with Party-State Newspaper Layouts: People s Daily and PLA Daily as Examples (NSC 94-2815-C-004-014-H), September 2005-March 2006. In Chinese. WORK IN PROGRESS Geography, Community, Household: Adoption of Distributed Solar Power across India (with Michael Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen), under review Social Acceptance of New Energy Technology in Developing Countries: A Framing Experiment in Rural India (with Michael Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen), under review Are Authoritarian Elections Good for Citizens? Electoral Institutions and Mass Repression in Dictatorships (with Yuree Noh), under review Fiscal Transfers, State Building, and Regime Resilience: Evidence from Poverty Alleviation in Xinjiang, under review 2
Autonomy in Autocracy: Explaining Ethnic Policies under Dictatorships Power Dynamics within the Chinese Communist Party: A Machine Learning Approach When Ethnic Ties Bind: Support for Independents from the Taiwanese Communities under the Martial Law (with Yi-tzu Lin) Criminal Politicians and Socioeconomic Development: Evidence from Rural India (with Johannes Urpelainen) Bias in Policy Implementation: Caste Discrimination and Electrification in Rural India (with Michael Aklin and Johannes Urpelainen) SELECTED GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS External Awards Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2017-8 Fellowship for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan), 2017-8 (declined) Attendee Grant, Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown, Hoover Institution, 2017 Asia Library Travel Grant, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2017 Young Scholar Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Chinese Studies, China Times Cultural Foundation, 2016 Attendee Grant, Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute, 2016 Attendee Grant, Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014 Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2013 Fulbright Graduate Study Grant, Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (Fulbright Taiwan), 2012-4 Government Scholarship for Study Abroad, Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan), 2012-4 3
Hsing Tian Kong Merit-based University Student Full Scholarship, Hsing Tian Kong Foundation of Culture and Education (Taipei, Taiwan), 2007-8 JAL Summer Scholarship, Japan Airline (Tokyo, Japan), 2007 Student Research Fellowship, National Science Council (Taipei, Taiwan), 2006 and 2008 Internal Awards Duthie-Secchia Fellowship for Doctoral Research on Contemporary China, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, 2017 Graduate Student Fieldwork Fellowship, UCLA International Institute, 2016 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA Graduate Division, 2015 Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA Department of Political Science, 2013, 2014, and 2017 Graduate Student Fellowship, UCLA Department of Political Science, 2012-7 President s Award, National Chengchi University, 2007-8 PRESENTATIONS American Political Science Association: 2015 and 2016 Midwest Political Science Association: 2014, 2016, and 2017 Invited presentations: 2014 and 2016 UC-Fudan Young Scholar Workshop; 2016 UCLA Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia; 2014 CUHK Graduate Seminar on China; 2010 Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences (ACPSS) International Conference; 2008 Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations; 2005 Taiwanese Political Science Association Other presentations: 2013 UCLA Comparative Politics Reading Group ADDITIONAL TRAINING Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown, Stanford University, July 2017 The Workshop on Big Data in Social Sciences, Tsinghua University (Beijing), August 2016 The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute, Duke University, June 2016 4
The Workshop on China Studies, National Chengchi University, September-December 2004 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Math Maven Graduate-level Intermediate Game Theory (Spring 2017) Teaching Assistant/Associate/Fellow Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2016, and Winter 2017) for Mike Thies, Dan Posner, and Graeme Blair World Politics (Spring 2017) for Rob Trager Roots of Democracy (Spring 2014) for Dan Treisman Contemporary China (Winter 2015) for Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA Sociology) Government and Politics of Russia (Fall 2015) for Dan Treisman Political Institutions and Economic Development (Winter 2016) for Miriam Golden Southeast Asian Politics (Spring 2016) for Michael Ross RESEARCH & ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE Paasha Mahdavi (Georgetown), July 2016-January 2017 Michael Ross (UCLA), April 2014-September 2016 Jih-wen Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), May 2011-August 2012 Center for Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School, August 2010-March 2011 Behavioral Lab, Columbia Business School, January-August 2010 FIELDWORK EXPERIENCES Shanghai and Beijing (China), August-September 2016 Conducted archival research and interviews on government policies toward ethnic minorities. Delhi and Lucknow (India), July-August 2014 5
Conducted pilot survey on rural household energy access in Uttar Pradesh with the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). AFFILIATIONS & SERVICES Academic Association Member, American Political Science Association, January 2015-present Member, Midwest Political Science Association, January 2014-present Visiting Positions Visiting Student, Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University, September 2016 Visiting Student, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University, August 2016 Visiting Researcher, Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, July-August 2013 Visiting Researcher, Harvard-Yenching Institute, March 2013 Services and Other Activities Reviewer, American Political Science Review, 2017 Associate, UCLA Digital Research Start-Up Partnerships, August 2016 Coordinator, UCLA Comparative Politics Reading Group, September 2013-June 2015 Guest Editor, Chinese Law & Government, 2011 SKILLS Languages: Mandarin Chinese (native) and English (fluent) Programming and software: L A TEX, R, Stata, SPSS, JAGS, Mathematica, Python, and HTML REFERENCES Michael Thies Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles thies@polisci.ucla.edu 6
Barbara Geddes Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles geddes@ucla.edu Johannes Urpelainen Associate Professor of Political Science Columbia University ju2178@columbia.edu 7