Rick is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology at Purdue University. He earned his B.Sc. degree from Zhejiang University in China. He will be joining City University of New York, Baruch College, as an Assistant Professor in I-O Psychology in Fall 2025. 

He studies how people experience conflict—whether balancing competing goals, negotiating disagreements, or facing biases and mistreatment—and how these processes shape well-being at work and beyond. Bridging theories from multiple disciplines, he uses rigorous methods (e.g., psychometrics, multilevel and longitudinal analyses, experiments, and qualitative approaches) to produce actionable, data-driven insights that advance individual thriving and organizational effectiveness.