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Chance Jiajie Li is a Master’s student and Research Assistant at the City Science Group, MIT Media Lab.
His research explores the interplay between institutional structures and individual behavior — how systems shape choices, and how human agency reshapes systems in return. He studies how computational systems can trace public reasoning, inform inclusive policy, and prototype civic infrastructures for fairer, more participatory, and consensus-driven public life. He currently focuses on building agents that model human reasoning and behavior. Learn More
He also explores socio-technical frameworks (such as Fuwang) that reimagine human agency, collective memory, and governance in digitally mediated societies. His work seeks to integrate agent-based modeling, distributed coordination, and urban systems into new mediums for collaborative sensemaking.
Earlier, his work spanned urban sustainability, decentralized systems, and urban informatics — investigating how computation can mediate behavior and decision-making in cities. Before joining MIT, he received a B.Eng. in Computer Science from Tongji University, Shanghai.