Cecilia Hyunjung Mo is a Scientific Advisor to IPA's Human Trafficking Research Initiative. She is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also serves as Faculty Director of the Master of Computational Social Science program. She is a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and previously held fellowships at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a PhD in Political Economics and an MA in Political Science from Stanford University, an MPA in International Development from Harvard University, an MA in Secondary Education from Loyola Marymount University, and a BA in Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Southern California.

Her research has been published in journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and World Development. Her honors include the American Political Science Association's 2026 Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology, the 2020 Emerging Scholar Award in Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, and the International Society of Political Psychology's 2018 Roberta Sigel Early Career Scholar Best Paper Award.