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Yongjun Zhang
TITLE
Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT
Sociology
PHONE
631-632-2352
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Yongjun Zhang joined SBU in 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Advanced
Computational Science and in the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. degree
in sociology from the University of Arizona (2020), where he also earned a Computational
Social Science Certificate.
He is a computational and quantitative sociologist studying politics, organizations, networks, and inequality. His current work combines statistical, network, and computational methods with big data such as large-scale GPS data, administrative records (e.g., FEC records, voter files, and consumer profiles), and social media data (e.g., billions of tweets) to study mobility, segregation, and polarization among different settings in the U.S. and the globe. He has published in top journals such as American Journal of Sociology and Demography.
He is a computational and quantitative sociologist studying politics, organizations, networks, and inequality. His current work combines statistical, network, and computational methods with big data such as large-scale GPS data, administrative records (e.g., FEC records, voter files, and consumer profiles), and social media data (e.g., billions of tweets) to study mobility, segregation, and polarization among different settings in the U.S. and the globe. He has published in top journals such as American Journal of Sociology and Demography.
Institute for Advanced Computational ScienceStony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY 11794-5250
Phone: (631) 632-4629