Leo Y. Yang is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI). He received a PhD in Political Science (with a Specialization in Computational Social Science) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2023. He is currently the Computational Social Science Fellow of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). His research interests include computational social science, text as data, and development economics. His research focuses on how media (like newspapers and Weibo) influences social and political issues. He is trained as a data scientist who is capable of collecting, cleaning, and using big data to analyze the social phenomenon.