hi! i'm emily. 🌱
i’m an undergrad @ Harvard studying math + data science 📊; researcher fascinated by our built societies & environment 🌐; reshaper of words & art into stories 📚; chronic music-looper, hobbyist anti-chess player, and matcha enthusiast 🍵
research 🔎
questions i’m currently pursuing:
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are recent design changes on big social media actually improving user digital well-being?
➤ Viswanath Lab @ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health -
how do we close tobacco control policy gaps in media, packaging, and enforcement?
➤ Institute for Global Tobacco Control @ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ➤ Xing et al. The problematic use of cultural symbols on Chinese cigarette packs (2023). Tobacco-Induced Diseases ➤ This project won Regeneron Talent Search Scholar -
how do we build the best renewable energy deployment models for an equitable energy transition?
➤ Harvard-China Project + Tsinghua School of Environment ➤ under review @ Science: Renewable-driven industrial relocation toward a more equitable net-zero energy transition ➤ under review @ Nature Sustainability: Challenging immediate phase-out in China: Balancing coal power control and renewable energy acceleration
writing 📝
words about things i love:
MDandMe’s AI is making medical information accessible to 80,000+ users. i seek to humanize their stories.
thinkpieces i wrote @ Bow Seat, the world’s largest creative environmental program for youth
my New York Times published science writing on tobacco as novel green fuel
some urban designs justly re-imagining marginalized neighborhoods; Harvard Urban Sustainability Lab
art + other musings 🎨
an incomplete list of my creative brainchildren:
i'm a visual artist. see my portfolio
set-designing Harvard theater: Romeo & Juliet (2024), Constellations (2024)
biomedical illustration @ Johns Hopkins: using digital stories to fight opioid use disorder
my Harvard Crimson Arts writer page, random late-night poetry, compositions