Dan is a third-year PhD student in International Affairs, Science, and Technology at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech. His research interests lie at the intersection of U.S. grand strategy, alliances, and innovation.

He served as a Harold Rosenthal Fellow both with the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation. He was the Senior Director for Public Affairs and Washington D.C. Director at the National Bureau of Asian Research, a think tank. He served as a fellow with the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. He also worked on an international strategic litigation team at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. 

He has published two peer-reviewed journal articles, one on how North Korea uses history as a policy instrument and one co-authored piece on why China innovates.

He has written commentaries for various foreign policy outlets, including The National Interest, The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, South China Morning Post, and The National Bureau of Asian Research. He co-authored an op-ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in December 2021.