Social Inequality Data Science Lab
Social Inequality Data Science Lab

Faculty

Jennie E. Brand

Jennie E. Brand is a Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is Director of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) and Co-Director of the Center for Social Statistics (CSS) at UCLA. See http://www.profjenniebrand.com

Ian Lundberg

Ian Lundberg is an Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Cornell University. Before joining Cornell University, Ian Lundberg was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Sociology and California Center for Population Research at UCLA

Xiang Zhou

Xiang Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Postdoc

Eleanor Hayes-Larson PhD, MPH is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA, and an affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Pablo Geraldo Bastías is a postdoctoral researcher at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and M.S. in Statistics at UCLA.

Caitlin E. Ahearn is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Economic Inclusion Project at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA in 2023.

Graduate Students

Taylor Aquino is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Soonhong Cho is a Ph.D. Candidate of Political Science and a M.S. student of Statistics at UCLA.

Nathan Hoffmann is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Bowei Hu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Nanum Jeon is a Ph.D. Candidate of Sociology, M.S. student of Statistics, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Shiva Rouhani is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Kristin Liao is a Ph.D. student in Sociology, M.S. student in Statistics, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Maureen Cowhey is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Tanvi Shinkre is a Ph.D. student in Statistics at UCLA, and a Student Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research.

Lan Tao is a Ph.D. student in Statistics at UCLA.

Davis Vo is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education and Organizational Change and M.S. student in Statistics & Data Science at UCLA.

Lucas Ophoff is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Princeton University.

alumni

 

Ryan W. Cho received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California – Los Angeles in 2022. Ryan currently works as a research scientist at Meta.

Amber D. Villalobos received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California – Los Angeles in 2021. Amber currently works as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Researcher at the Higher Education Race and the Economy Lab (HERE LAB) at the University of California, Merced.