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Han Zhang is the Young Family Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Sociology and International Public Affairs. He obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. from Peking University. His substantive research interests include social movements, particularly in China, and digital surveillance on a global scale. Zhang employs computational social science methods to develop statistical machine-learning algorithms used for creating large-scale datasets from diverse image and text data sources. His significant research projects involve analyzing protest events in contemporary China and examining state surveillance capabilities. His innovative methodologies for analyzing large-scale image datasets have also been recognized within the academic community. Zhang's research contributions have been acknowledged with paper awards from the American Sociological Association and the International Communication Association.
Department: Department of Economics