Jason Luo 羅勉

Course Taught

  • POLISCI 117/317: Chinese Politics and Society: An Expert-Led Seminar. UG/GRAD Course, Stanford University. Teaching Assistant for Yiqing Xu, Winter 2024. Evaluation: 4.7/5.
  • POLISCI 148/348: Chinese Politics. UG/GRAD Course, Stanford University. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Jean Oi, Winter 2021. Evaluation: 4.4/5.
  • POLISCI 150B/355B: Machine Learning for Social Scientists. UG/GRAD Course, Stanford University. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Kirk Bansak, Winter 2019. Evaluation: 4.0/5.
  • POLISCI 450A: Political Methodology I: Regression Analysis. Graduate Course, Stanford University. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Yiqing Xu, Autumn 2019. Evaluation: 4.2/5.
  • POLISCI 450B: Political Methodology II: Causal Inference. Graduate Course, Stanford University. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Jens Hainmuller, Winter 2020. Evaluation: 4.2/5.
  • POLISCI 450D: Political Methodology IV: Advanced Topics. Graduate Course, Stanford University. Teaching Assistant for Prof. Douglas Rivers, Autumn 2021. Evaluation: 4.5/5.
  • Research Methods in Social Sciences. Graduate Course, Yangon School of Political Science. Principal Instructor, Autumn 2020.
  • SCPKU Graduate Seminar: Chinese Corporations: A Case Study Workshop (Andrew Walder and Zheng Lu), Summer 2019.

Selected Student Comments

  • “Jason really taught me about how to think about source organization in a literature review, and constantly pushed us to go deeper and consolidate our knowledge on Chinese politics during section meetings. He’s fantastic.”
  • “Jason was extremely prepared, meticulous, and very thoughtful in his words and feedback. I can tell that he genuinely put his all into every section. He was also extremely quick to reply to emails and just very communicative overall.”
  • “Jason was ALWAYS willing to help. He replied every e-mail and piazza question super quickly; Jason’s flexibility with office hours was crucial to my understanding of the class. He was willing to go over PSETS and particular concepts that I didn’t understand; Jason was always well-prepared for section with helpful slides and interactive coding”
  • “very approachable and friendly – seemed as if he genuinely cared about students’ success in the course; Super responsive – if you ever have a question, Jason will answer within the hour; incredibly smart”
  • “Very knowledgeable about the math behind the specific methods we use. Very good at coding and implementing these methods with computational methods.”