Muyi Xiao

Muyi Xiao is a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile at the Asia Society. From 2020 to 2025, she worked on The New York Times’ Visual Investigations team, where she used emerging techniques to analyze and find clues in open source material, such as videos and photos, satellite images, flight and ship tracking data, government documents and corporate records. At The Times, she reported extensively on China, with a focus on technology, geopolitics, and security. She was part of a team named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 and shared the Gerald Loeb Award in 2022. She has also won four Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, often regarded as the “Pulitzer Prizes of Asia."