About
Tyler is a PhD student in Political Science and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan. He is also pursuing a dual master's degree in Statistics. Tyler employs a mixed-methods approach to study long-term political development. His research focuses on democratization, particularly the historical and societal foundations of political parties and party systems, with area foci on East and Southeast Asia. Trained as a demographer, he is especially interested in the relationship between demographic transitions and party-voter re/de-alignments.
Tyler is a Mandarin Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, and Japanese speaker.
Tyler currently serves as the President of the Graduate Association of Political Scientists (GAPS), a student-led organization at the University of Michigan that bridges the graduate student community and the broader political science department.
