I am Duy D Trinh, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). My research centers on elite politics in single-party regimes, with a particular focus on contemporary Vietnam and China. I investigate how violent intra-elite conflicts emerge; how authoritarian elites use censorship to compete for power; and how societal actors respond to various outcomes of factional politics. My works have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, and Problems of Post-Communism, as well as in an edited volume. I am proud to be a Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) fellow and a Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholar.

Prior to joining HKUST, I served as a Data and Statistical Specialist at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

In November 2021, I defended my PhD Dissertation in Political Science, titled Knowing Yourself, Knowing Your Enemy: Factional Clarity and Intra-Elite Violence in Authoritarian Regimes at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to that, I received a MA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego (2016), and BA in Political Science and Psychology from Colgate University (2014).