Xuan Qin (Ph.D. in Political Science) is an associate professor and research fellow at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (IAS-Fudan). She received her Ph.D. from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore). She is also a research assistant in the program of Participedia, which is developed by Archon Fung (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and Mark E. Warren (Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia). Her current research interests fall within the fields of democratic theory, statistical analysis, and data visualization. She has published several articles in SSCI and CSSCI journals.