Xiaoyu Pu was a non-resident senior fellow with the Asia & Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue between 2019 and 2020. He is an associate professor with tenure and director of graduate studies at University of Nevada, Reno, where he focuses on Chinese foreign policy, Sino-American Relations, emerging markets such as the BRICS, and international relations theory. He was previously postdoctoral research fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program.
His research has appeared in International Security, International Affairs, The China Quarterly, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and Foreign Affairs Review, among other distinguished publications. He is an editor of The Chinese Journal of International Politics and serves on the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Review (Beijing).
His commentary has been featured on BBC, South China Morning Post, and Phoenix Satellite Television, and has been invited to deliver speeches at numerous think tanks and universities, including the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil, the National Committee on United States-China Relations, Princeton University, and Tsinghua University.