Education

Ph.D. in Journalism and Media, The University of Texas at Austin, the United States, 2018–2022

• Committee: Iris Chyi (Chair), Min Kyung Lee, Natalie Stroud, Tom Johnson, Wenhong Chen

• Dissertation: Machine Heuristic and Systematic Information Processing: A Dual Processing Model of News Perceptions in the Era of Algorithms

 

M.A. in Journalism, Peking University, China, 2016–2018

• Thesis: The Development of Chinese Automated Journalism                                                                 

 

B.A. in Journalism, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2012–2016

 

B.A. in English (Dual Degree), Wuhan University, China, 2012–2016

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Professional Experience

(Forthcoming) Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, starting from 2023 Fall

• Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism in the College of Arts, Media, and Design with a joint appointment in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.

 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2022 – 2023

• The Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI), jointly based at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and the Cyber Policy Center (CPC) at Stanford University.

 

Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, 2020 – current

• Human–AI Interaction Lab in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin.