Yining is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics at Princeton University specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Substantively, she is interested in the political economy of violence, migration, and development. Yining holds a B.A. in International Politics from Fudan University and an M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University. Prior to her PhD program, she worked at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes and Empirical Studies of Conflict lab at Princeton University.