Research
Research
My work uses computational methods and network approaches to study marriage, stratification, digital governance, and social data.
Research Interests
Computational Social ScienceSocial NetworksSocial StratificationOccupational Assortative MatingDigital GovernanceLarge Language Models
Current Projects
- Marriage boundaries and social closure: occupational assortative mating in China through social network analysis.
- Text classification with GPT in social science research: empirical cases and methodological insights.
- Dynamic patterns of citizens' online political participation in government Weibo.
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.