About me
I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Humanities and Social Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where I’m fortunate to work under the supervision of Prof. Tang Wenfang. Prior to my doctoral studies, I spent two years (2021–2023) as a research assistant with Prof. Xia Ying, an experience that shaped much of how I think about research today.
My research is broadly concerned with computational social science, public opinion, and social epigenetics. I use computational methods, digital trace data, and large language models to study how social environments and digital platforms shape what people think, feel, and collectively respond to.
Before entering academia, I worked as a Senior Algorithm Engineer at Mininglamp Technology (2021–2023), where I focused on deep learning, natural language processing, and large language models. This industry experience continues to inform how I approach computational problems in my research.
Research Areas
Computational Measurement and Public Opinion: I work on building and validating computational tools for measuring social and political attitudes at scale. A central thread in my current research asks whether large language models can credibly impute public opinion and reproduce meaningful variance across populations—and how these new methods stack up against conventional survey-based approaches.
Online Political Expression and Government Responsiveness: I study how political events and digital environments shape the way citizens express themselves online. Some of my ongoing projects examine the structure of online conversations, how people talk to one another (and to governments), and how government responsiveness plays out in these digital exchanges.
Political Psychology and Digital Behavior: I am interested in how psychological dispositions and identities shape political expression in online settings. My work in this area asks how individual-level psychological factors interact with digital environments to influence what citizens say, how they say it, and whom they engage with.
Outside Work
I’m a signed photographer with Visual China Group (VCG). I shoot primarily on film currently and have a particular fondness for twin-lens reflex cameras—there’s something about the deliberate, tactile process that I find irreplaceable. My work tends toward the quiet harmony between natural landscapes and architectural form.
I don’t maintain an active presence on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Weibo, though I may have registered accounts on these platforms in the past for research purposes.