Inequality Data Science Lab
Inequality Data Science Lab

Faculty

Jennie E. Brand

Jennie E. Brand is a Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is Co-Director of the Center for Social Statistics (CSS) at UCLA and President of the Association of Population Centers (APC). See http://www.profjenniebrand.com

Ian Lundberg

Ian Lundberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at UCLA and faculty affiliate at the California Center for Population Research. See https://www.ianlundberg.org.

Xiang Zhou

Xiang Zhou is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Xi Song

Xi Song is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Demography at University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Computing Core Director of the Population Studies Center at Penn. See https://xisong.me.

Postdoc

 

Pablo Geraldo Bastías is a postdoctoral researcher at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and M.S. in Statistics at UCLA in 2023.

Caitlin E. Ahearn is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Economic Inclusion Project at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA in 2023.

 

Graduate Students

Our graduate student affiliates come from various fields in social data science, including:

SOCIOLOGY

Taylor Aquino is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Nathan Hoffmann is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology and M.S. student of Statistics at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Bowei Hu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Nanum Jeon is a Ph.D. Candidate of Sociology and M.S. student of Statistics at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Shiva Rouhani is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Kristin Liao (lab coordinator) is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and M.S. student in Statistics at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Maureen Cowhey is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Hugo Po-Chien Lin is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Hao Liang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology, Cornell University, and he is also an affiliate at Cornell Population Center.

Jiahui Xu is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University.

Yanji Du is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

 

INFORMATION SCIENCE

Federica Bologna is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University.

Daniel Molitor is a Ph.D. student in Information Science with an emphasis in Statistics at Cornell University.

Jennah Gosciak is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University.

 

STATISTICS

Tanvi Shinkre is a Ph.D. student in Statistics at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Lan Tao is a Ph.D. student in Statistics at UCLA.

 

POLITICAL SCIENCE ECONOMICS EDUCATION

Soonhong Cho is a Ph.D. Candidate of Political Science and a M.S. student of Statistics at UCLA.

 

Yaling Xu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Cornell University and also affiliates with the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.

 

Davis Vo is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education and Organizational Change and M.S. student in Statistics & Data Science at UCLA.

 

alumni

Eleanor Hayes-Larson PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Gerontology at University of South California.

Ryan W. Cho received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California – Los Angeles in 2022. Ryan currently works as a research scientist at Meta.

Amber D. Villalobos received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California – Los Angeles in 2021. Amber currently works as a Fellow at The Century Foundation.

Lucas Ophoff is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Princeton University.