University of Wisconsin–Madison
Biography Yiming Wang is a Senior Policy Analyst at APPRISE and a Research Fellow at the Public Tech Media Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a doctoral minor in Political Science. Her research examines political communication, public opinion, public policy, and democratic accountability, with a particular focus …
Biography Zhe Xu is a Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Media and Communication at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). His research focuses on crisis communication and computational social science, with a particular emphasis on humanitarian crises. He uses computational methods to analyze news corpora and digital trace data, examining how information …
Biography A first-year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, with a background in journalism and law. Having gained experience as a journalist and consultant, my current research focuses on the intersection of emerging technologies, privacy perception, social media information disclosure, and public policy.
Biography Stephanie Yang is a Ph.D. student at SJMC, UW-Madison. Currently, her research interests lie in journalism, civil society, and social movements in authoritarian contexts. By studying the role of public interest technologies, including AI, she explores how journalism constitutes democratic resilience in societies undergoing autocratization.
Biography Justin is a PhD student at the Network Science Institute (London) supervised by Prof. Riccardo di Clemente, Prof. Andrew Hone and partially by Prof. Renaud Lambiotte. Using network science and machine learning techniques, his work focuses on characterizing, modelling and inferring complex human interactions in very large real-world systems. He is now a visiting …
Biography Chenjie Zheng is a PhD student in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on gender, media, and communication, with particular attention to reproductive politics, family dynamics, and feminist media practices. She also explores FemTech and AI-driven health technologies, examining how digital tools mediate women’s bodies and shape public …