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Welcome! I'm Yufan

I'm an assistant professor at Augusta University. I gained my PhD in Political Science from University of Iowa. My research interest includes political violence, global environmental politics, mass movements, media and politics, and autocratic regimes. I mainly conduct quantitative research using conventional econometric methods. I'm also interested in computational social sciences and I use machine learning techniques, especially text analysis in my research. 

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Yufan Yang

Assistant Professor at Augusta University

Email:
Address:

E316 Allgood Hall

Augusta University

Research Area:

International Relations

Comparative Politics

Political Methodology | Machine Learning

RESEARCH

RESEARCH
Defence and Peace Economics

2021

International Interactions

2022

With Joshua Tschantret and Hoshik Nam

With Joshua Tschantret and Cody Schmidt

Journal of Peace Research

2022

With Sara Mitchell, Bomi Lee, and Cody Schmidt

What Do We Know About War

Book Chapter

With Sara Mitchell

Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media

2023

Dissertation

EDUCATION

EDUCATION
2017-2022 
University of Iowa, IA, United States

Ph.D. in Political Science

2015-2016
King's College London, London, United Kingdom

M.A. in International Development

2011-2015
Fudan University, Shanghai, China

B.S. in Financial Management

SKILLS

SKILLS

Python

R

STATA

Applied Statistics

Causal Inference

Machine Learning

METHODOLOGY

METHODOLOGY
Applied Statistics
  • Time Series Analysis

  • Network Analysis

  • Duration Analysis

  • Spatial Analysis

  • Bayesian Analysis

Causal Inference
  • Difference-in-Difference Analysis

  • Interrupted Time-series Synthetic Control

  • Propensity Score Matching

Machine Learning
  • Classification

  • Text Analysis

  • Image Analysis

  • Video Analysis

  • Web Scraping

CONTACT
TEACHING
TEACHING
Teaching Experience
  • Introduction to International Relations

  • Latin American Politics

  • Introduction to Politics of Race

  • Introduction to Stata

Teaching Interest I
Teaching Interest II
  • Introductory Statistics

  • Introductory Methodology

  • Advanced Methodology

  • Text Analysis

  • Stata

  • Python

  • Introduction to International Relations

  • Introduction to Comparative Politics

  • International and Civil Conflicts

  • Environmental Politics

  • Political Regimes

  • Social Movements

  • China Politics

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