Yukun Yang

Yukun (he/him) is a first-year Ph.D. student working with Professor Brooke Foucault Welles in the CoMM Lab. He is generally interested in understanding how social identities undergird communication and interactions on social media and how identity-based complex social processes influence the phenomenon of balkanization, polarization, mobilization, and user migration in online spaces. Before joining NetSI, he is a data scientist at the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University where he contributed to the Racial Data Lab. He obtained his Master's degree in Information Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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