Zhenhua Tu is a PhD candidate in international security with research interests in emotions and risk perception, overseas technology protection and computational social science methods.
Using GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone) database, he measures conflict events between China and the United States and examines shifts in China's perception of US risks from an emotional perspective. This involves identifying discrepancies between subjective perceptions and objective conflict events, supplemented by an analysis of specific historical cases.
He also explores novel applications of large language models (LLMs) in the social sciences and has contributed to the book named Large Language Models for Social Science: Theory, Methods, and Applications. Furthermore, he collaborates with his team to simulate test subjects via LLM-based agents to investigate hawkish biases in diplomatic decision-making.
He is from the School of International Studies at Peking University. After completing his undergraduate and master's degrees, he was twice awarded the Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Municipality and the Outstanding Graduate of Peking University.
He was also twice awarded the title of Excellent Student Leader at Peking University. He was president of the Peking University Youth Think Tank for two years, during which time he organized various activities, including tea gatherings for young scholars, global leadership roundtable forums and corporate visits.
