Haohao is a DPhil student at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Nuffield College, Oxford, with a strong interest in demography and population science. He is passionate about studying human behaviour, particularly how individuals act and interact with one another. His DPhil thesis examines trends in stagnating or declining life expectancy and disparities in chronic pain in the United States. His academic interests broadly encompass social demography, social epidemiology, sequence analysis, extreme value theory, and applied machine learning.

Haohao earned an MPhil in Sociology and Demography with Distinction from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Social Sciences with Quantitative Methods, graduating with First-Class Honours from University College London. He is also affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research as a doctoral student in the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health, and Data Science.

His research is generously supported by the Clarendon Fund, Nuffield College, and the Max Planck Society.