Yukun Yang (陽 玉堃)
I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the Network Science
Institute, second-year Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Design and Media at Northeastern University
working with Prof. Brooke
Foucault Welles.
My research interests widely across the fields of Communication, Information
Science and Computational
Social Science. Specifically, I study the collective and communicative practices on social media and how these acts uphold or challenge the dominant narratives, power hierarchies, and hegemonic ideologies, with a specific concentration on race and ethnicity..
Previously, I was a Data Scientist at the Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University. I obtained my master's degree in Information Science offered by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and my bachelor's in Library Science from Northwest University, China. I am currently a Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) affiliate.