Ryan Yang Wang

Ryan Y. Wang is a Ph. D. student majoring in Mass Communications and minoring in Social Data Analytics. His broad research interests aim at investigating the development of information communication technology and the backbone Internet infrastructure on macro-, meso-, micro-level, and their interlocked yet differentiated impacts and outcomes on political polarization and economic development within a timescale and spatial structure. Additionally, he is interested in incorporating computational methodology in his research, including natural language processing, network analysis, (geo)spatial analysis, etc. In his spare time, he is a hip-hop beat-maker and producer.