Hello!

My name is Xiaoyang Xu (she/her/hers). I received my Ph.D. in public administration and public policy from the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University in 2023. 

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Better Government Lab, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University working on case studies of how government adopts technology innovations from civic tech to improve public's access to social benefits. We interviewed federal, state, tribal nation, and local government officials and civic tech organizations to explore this process.  

My research interests include gender and public administration, equal access to public services, budgeting, and theories of representative bureaucracy. 

I am a mixed-method scholar- I apply qualitative (interviews and archival research), quantitive (large-N data analysis), and survey experiment methods in my research.

I received my bachelor's degree in public administration and nonprofit management (2017) and Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University (2018).