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Yongjun Zhang
Yongjun ZhangAssistant ProfessorDepartment of SociologyInstitute for Advanced Computational ScienceCollege of Arts and Sciences

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Corporate Political Activities Social Movements Corporate Responses to Coronavirus Big Data Computational Social Science

Biography

Yongjun Zhang is a computational sociologist studying politics, organizations, networks, and inequality. Specifically, his ongoing work investigates how shareholder activism and social movements influence corporate political behavior. Currently, he is also using deep learning methods with SafeGraph and Facebook data to predict social distancing behavior and to track corporate responses to COVID19.

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Education

  • PhD, Sociology, The University of Arizona, 2020
  • MA, Sociology, Peking University
  • BA, Sociology, Peking University
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