Haohan Chen

Assistant Professor: Haohan Chen is a computational social scientist. His methodological research focuses on developing computational methods for analyzing text and network data from social media. His substantive research focuses on political communication and political behavior under both authoritarian and democratic contexts.

He received his Ph.D. in Political Science and M.S. in Statistical Science from Duke University in December 2019. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania (2019-2020) and the Center for Social Media and Politics at New York University (2020-2021). He won the APSA Political Communication Section Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award (2020) and the BEST Award for Master’s Research at Duke Statistical Science (2020).

He earned a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong with First Class Honors in 2013.

Interests

• Computational Social Science
• Political Communication
• Comparative Politics

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration The University of Hong Kong (2021)
• Postdoctoral Fellow The Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU (2020 — 2021)
• Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania (2019 — 2020)
• Gradaute Student Affiliate The Polarization Lab at Duke University (2018 — 2019)