He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Dr. Han was born and grew up in East China’s Jiangsu Province. He got his bachelor degree in International Studies from Peking University, Beijing. He also received a Master of Social Sciences from National University of Singapore in 2006. Dr. Han’s research interests are media & cyber politics, political participation in authoritarian regimes, authoritarian resilience, and democratization, with an area focus of China. He is the author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience (Columbia University Press).