Murphy (Ruoyang) Tu is a Ph.D. student in Chinese Archaeology at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. His research interests involve urbanism, settlement patterns, and digital archaeology. He seeks to explore different mechanisms of social, political, and economic interactions and the resource landscape that shaped urbanism during Neolithic and Early Bronze Age China through computational techniques and stable isotope analysis. Murphy holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a B.S. in Astrophysics from the University of Chicago, and received his M.A. in Archaeological Studies from Yale University. He worked on the stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating of fossil animal enamels from LSA Malawi for his MA thesis.