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I am a post-doctoral scholar in the Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA) at Penn State University. I specialize in comparative politics and political methodology. My research centers on public opinion, elite behavior (misinformation), and Chinese politics. To better answer classic questions and understand new phenomena, for example, public support for democracy and online misinformation by elites, I use quantitative, automated, and computational techniques to analyze large-scale survey data and text data.
My method interest includes latent variable measurements, Bayesian Analysis, NLP/Text-as-data, and machine-learning in non-traditional data.
You can check out my Curriculum Vitae here and learn more about my research interests in research.
Ph.D. in Political Science ∙ University of Iowa ∙ 2022
Informatics Certificate ∙ University of Iowa ∙ 2021
M.A. in Political Science ∙ University of Iowa ∙ 2021
Msc. in Political Science ∙ Nanyang Technological University ∙ 2008
B.A. in Law ∙ Renmin University of China ∙ 2007
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Research
Official yet questionable: Examining misinformation in U.S. state legislators' tweets
Study analyze the content of 3,345,232 tweets posted by over three-thousand accounts of U.S. state lawmakers throughout all of 2020 and 2021 and finding that Republicans share far more—an order of magnitude more—misinformation than do Democrats. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Accepted.
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