Yongjun Zhang
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, AI Innovation Institute, Center for Changing Systems of Power, Asian and Asian American Studies
Interests: Political Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Big Data, and Computational Social Science
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Bio:
My current work combines statistical, network, and computational methods with large-scale datasets to study social, political, and organizational behavior. Particularly, I am using large-scale GPS data, administrative records (e.g., FEC records, voter files, and consumer profiles), and social media data (e.g., billions of tweets, millions of YouTube videos) to study mobility, segregation, and polarization among different settings in the U.S. and worldwide.
Select Works:
"Navigating the Risks of Using LLMs in Text Annotation in Social Science Research." Social Science Computer Review.
''Mobility-based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from Large-scale Mobile Device Data.'' Demography.
''The Geography of Activity Space Segregation: Combining Mobile Device Data and Census Data.'' RSF Journal of the Social Sciences.
''The Racial Limits of Disruption: How Race and Tactics Influence Social Movement Organization Testimony Before Congress, 1960-1995.'' Social Forces.
''Gender, Race, and Intersectionality in the Political Donations of America’s Corporate Elite." The Sociological Quarterly.