Ziyi Wu

Ziyi Wu is a first-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His primary field is Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on China. His research explores state propaganda, misinformation, and censorship in authoritarian regimes, particularly in China. He received advanced training in both mathematical statistics and game theory, while also extensively using survey experiments in his research. Before coming to Notre Dame, he earned his B.S. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a student, he conducted research at the Lieberthal- Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and was a research assistant and manager at MIT’s Political Experiments Research Lab. His broader interests focus on how language, imagery, and media shape political behaviors and attitudes. Currently, he is especially interested in how governments use narratives to generate uncertainty around truth and influence public perception, both in authoritarian and democratic settings. His ongoing work also examines misinformation in the United States, the implications of artificial intelligence in political narratives, and political communication in Japan.