About
Tyler is a PhD student in Political Science and Scientific Computing and is also pursuing a dual master’s degree in Statistics. His research interests lie at the intersection of social demography and party politics. Specifically, he studies how aggregate population data can be decomposed to uncover the long-term effects of demographic trends on political parties and party systems. His current project examines how combining population synthesis from census data with agent-based modeling can enhance the flexibility of approaches to ecological inference.
As a comparativist, Tyler focuses on East and Southeast Asia. He conducts research in multiple languages, including Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, and Japanese. His interest in this region stems from the diversity of its electoral systems, where institutional constraints shape the political consequences of demographic change in different ways, offering a crucial comparative perspective for his research. As a methodologist, Tyler is deeply engaged in pedagogy and has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistical methods.
His academic service includes co-organizing two Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops: the China Reading Group (2023– ) and the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics (2023–2024). He also serves as president of the Graduate Association of Political Scientists in the Political Science Department, an organization dedicated to strengthening communication between faculty and graduate students.
