PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
WORK & INTERNSHIPS
NBA League Office, Director of Basketball Analytics, 2014-Present.
Columbia University School of Professional Studies, Adjunct Instructor, 2016-present.
NYU School of Professional Studies, Adjunct Instructor, 2015-2016.
Charlotte Hornets, Director of Basketball Analytics, 2013-2014. Manager of Basketball Analytics, 2012-2013.
Harvard Men’s Basketball Team, Student Manager, 2011-2012.
Xinjiang Flying Tigers (CBA), Director of Statistical Analysis, 2011.
Ukraine National Team, Statistical Consultant, 2011.
Shanghai Sharks (CBA), Assistant GM, Basketball Operations, 2009-2010.
Starz International Sports Management, Intern, 2009.
NBA Basketball Without Borders Asia, Basketball Operations Assistant, 2009.
Houston Rockets , Basketball Operations Intern, 2007-2012.
M.D. Sass, Investment Management Firm, Intern, 2006-2007.
OTHER ACTIVITIES, HONORS & PUBLICATIONS
Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Sports Analytics, 2013-Present.
President of the Harvard Club of Charlotte, 2012-2014.
Director of Speaker Recruitment and Sponsorship for 2013 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS).
Wrote senior thesis (advisor Carl Morris, Harvard Professor of Statistics) on “An In-game Win Probability Model for the NBA,” 2012.
Co-organized 2011 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS).
Presented “In-Game Win Probability for Basketball” at the 2011 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS).
Secretary/Co-President/Member of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, 2007-2012.
Presented “The Pythagorean Formula for Overtime” at the 2009 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports (NESSIS). The poster was named the Best Student Poster of the conference. The corresponding paper was then published: “Predicting Overtime with the Pythagorean Formula,” Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports: Vol. 6: Iss. 2, Article 1. 2010.
Acted as a consultant in the Major League Baseball (MLB) bat study to try to help identify the risk level of broken bats and what could be done to mitigate it (2008).
Consulted to help build a fantasy football model, 2008.
EDUCATION
Harvard College.
AB Statistics; Minor: East Asian Studies
Foreign Language Citation: Mandarin Chinese (fluent)