Chuanji wants to push for data-driven decision making in environmental conservation. This is with a particular focus on the modelling of cost and benefit information and the value of incorporating better quality information.

He has a diverse experience in the financial and ecological environment. He qualified as an associate actuary within the first few years of his career while working as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers that involved statistical modelling and probability distributions. He then pivoted to a financial and customer data analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia that involves segmentation, forecasts, and financial models. He then retrained as a biologist, completing his Masters of Research and worked on two data-intensive projects involving algorithms to derive a relationship between dive behaviour and health conditions of Weddell seals in Antarctica and determining genomic adaptation of damselflies in a range-expansion in Sweden. After completion of his masters, he then worked on a NESP project on building cost models to estimate threat management across Australia, and more recently was responsible for the cost estimation for the budget of the 5-year threatened species recovery plan for Norfolk Island.