Background
Academic Background
Education and teaching experience.
Education
- The Chinese University of Hong KongPh.D. in Sociology, Computational Social Science concentrationDissertation: Marriage and Boundaries: A New Network Approach to Studying Patterns and Trends of Occupational Assortative Mating in the US and China.
- Shanghai UniversityM.A. in SociologyThesis: Mechanism Analysis of the Innovation Diffusion of Government Microblogging in China.
- Huaqiao UniversityB.A. in SociologyThesis: Characteristics and Causes of Missing Children in China.
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2022-2025.
- Social Network Analysis, 2023: delivered 12 hours of English tutorials on using R for social network analysis.
- Graduation Thesis I & II, 2023: advised 13 undergraduate students.
- Quantitative Data Analysis, 2022: delivered 20 hours of English tutorials on R for quantitative sociological analysis.
- Teaching Assistant, Shanghai University, 2020-2021: 9th and 10th Summer Workshops on Applied Social Science Research Methods, jointly organized by the School of Sociology at Shanghai University and the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research at NYU Shanghai.
- Assisted courses on STATA and applied regression analysis, categorical data analysis, and introduction to computational social science; supported hands-on training in Python programming, text analysis, and topic modeling.