Yiqing Xu

About

Yiqing Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His research interests cover political methodology, Chinese politics, and their intersection. He has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Xu has won several professional awards, including the best article award from American Journal of Political Science (2016), the Miller Prize (2018, 2020) for the best work appearing in Political Analysis the preceding year, and the Emerging Scholar Award (2024) from the Society of Political Methodology.

He received a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in economics from Peking University, and a BA in economics from Fudan University.