I am an incoming assistant professor of
Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College.
My research focuses on politics, social networks, and how algorithms reshape human behavior. I also design music systems. My work was featured by The Washington Post, Scientific American, and The NY Times.
Mathematical Prestige: Elitism and Inequality
Chang & Fu
How Instagram Facilitated the 2020 BLM Protests
Chang, Richardson, & Ferrara
Complex Systems of Secrecy: Offshore System of Oligarchs
Chang, Harrington, Fu, & Rockmore
Liberals Engage with more Diverse and Toxic Content
Chang, Druckman, Ferrara, & Willer
News
Talks
Dec 07-08, 2023. I will be giving lectures on Political Communication and Computational Social Science at National Taiwan University (NTU).
Nov 08, 2023. Identity Crisis? Self-identification and Group selection in the 2024 Taiwanese Presidential Elections at the Text-as-Data Conference (TADA) at UMass Amherst.
May 02, 2023. I defended my dissertation Improving Informaiton Diversity on Social Media.
Nov 4, 2022. Discriminatory Target Report with the NYU Critical Race & Data Studies (CR+DS) and the Democracy Fund at the American Studies Association (ASA) in New Orleans.
Oct 25, 2022. Presenting at the Illicit Financial Flow workshop, United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) and Development Economics Research Group in Copenhagen.
Sep 22, 2022. Industry research at the Mathematical Humanities Lab, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.
