Dr. Guangyi Pan is a Lecturer in International Political Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra. His research primarily focuses on asymmetric politics, China's alliance/alignment policy, Sino-Soviet (Russia) relations, and the neoclassical realism of International Relations.

Guangyi has published journal articles, media reports, and analytical pieces in areas such as Indo-Pacific politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Cold War history. He is the author of The US Covert Operation in Poland in the 1980s (Nanjing University Press, 2023) and National Role Conception and Neoclassical Realism: A Synthetic Exploration into the Sino-Soviet Alignment (Routledge, 2025). He received his PhD in International Politics from UNSW Sydney in 2024. Previously, he studied at Nanjing University and worked at UNICEF China.