Chao-Yo Cheng is a Lecturer in Quantitative Political and Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London. He is also the Director of Birkbeck's interdisciplinary Postgraduate Social Research Programmes and the Co-Director of the Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies. He is broadly interested in the political economy of governance and development, combining different computational, quantitative, and qualitative methods. He is now working on a collaborative book project "Birds in the Cage? Changing Politics of Administrative Litigation in China" that builds on the growing literature exploring how authoritarian courts can mobilize public participation to enhance bureaucratic control while mitigating risks of collective action. He has also run an international summer school on applied social data science with the School of Law at the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China) while leading two workshops "Causality and Causal Inference in Empirical Legal Studies" (Summer 2024) and "Using Numbers to Study Law and Politics" (Winter 2024) for law school students and legal scholars in China.