Nicole Wu is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. She received her PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a BSSc in Government and Public Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Her research in international/comparative political economy seeks to understand the political consequences of two of the most important changes in the contemporary world economy — technological change and the rise of China. Her work is currently supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) through the Azrieli Global Scholars Program. She chairs the Virtual International Political Economy Society (Virtual IPES) workshops.

Publications

• "Little to lose: Exit options and technological receptiveness in China" (with Zhongwei Sun). Accepted at The China Quarterly.
• "Surveying the Impact of Generative Large Language Models on Political Science Education" (with Patrick Y. Wu). Accepted at PS: Political Science & Politics.‍
• "'Restrict Foreigners, Not Robots': Partisan Responses to Automation Threat." Economics & Politics. 2023.
• "Misattributed Blame? Attitudes Toward Globalization in the Age of Automation.'' Political Science Research and Methods. 2022. (Peace Science Society (International) Award)
• “Automation, Not Immigration: The Case Study of Japan.” In Culture, Sociality, and Morality New Applications of Mainline Political Economy (edited by Paul Dragos Aligica, Ginny Seung Choi, and Virgil Henry Storr). Rowman & Littlefeld. 2021.
• "Can Beijing Buy Taiwan? An Empirical Assessment of Beijing’s Agricultural Concessions to Taiwan” (with Stan Hok-Wui Wong). Journal of Contemporary of China. 2016.