Students

Email: kevinjangell@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Kevin is studying American congressional and executive politics. He is especially interested in how political institutions shape behavior and the role of political staff and government bureaucracy. His work is primarily empirical. Kevin was awarded the NSF GFRP in 2024. 

Email: shiyan@uchicago.edu 

Shiyan is interested in applying game theory to study comparative politics. More specifically: non-democratic politics, democratization, and post-communist transition are her focused research areas. Before coming to Chicago, she completed her undergraduate at the Zhejiang University in International Relations and masters in Political Science and Political Economy at the London School of Economics. 

Email: aevert@uchicago.edu

Alex is primarily interested in using game theory to study problems in American politics. His current research agenda is broadly focused on the politics of information and the electoral relationship between parties, candidates, and voters.

Email: farace@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Giorgio is broadly interested in formal theory and comparative politics. His current research focuses on information and election manipulation in non-democracies, collective punishment, and social choice theory. 

Email: agorbuntsova@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Alena is excited about empirical analysis of political and judicial systems of autocracies, primarily Russia. She received her master's degree in Economics from the New Economic School in 2024 and her bachelor's degree in Economics from Moscow State University in 2022.

Email: blshaver@uchicago.edu  |  Website

Ben is interested in applied game theory and American politics. Recently, he has focused on the effect of uncertainty about a policymaker’s ability to develop high-quality policies on policymaking, the interaction between succession concerns and agenda setting within organizations, and the impact of fact-checking on political communication. 

Email: yuehaoyang@uchicago.edu

Yuehao’s substantive research interests center on relationships among state actors, accountability, bureaucracy, and political polarization. He also has an interest in research methodology. 

Email: hongding@uchicago.edu

Hongding’s substantive research interests focus on institutional transition, bureaucracy, and non-democracies. His methodological interests center on applied game theory and combining formal models with historical materials.