Gen Tsudaka is a behavioral scientist and incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Shanghai’s Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER). At CASER, he will investigate how changing social and ecological environments shape human development, well-being, and collective life across China and beyond. His work integrates experimental psychology, computational methods, and large-scale archival and geospatial data. He is also an affiliated researcher at Columbia Business School, examining ecological predictors of innovation and knowledge production. He earned his PhD in Cognitive, Social, and Developmental Psychology from The New School for Social Research.