This is Xiaoyu Zhang, a current Ph.D. student and an empirical social science researcher from the sociology department at Columbia University.
My research interests lie broadly in stratification and inequality, economic sociology and quantitative methods. My current research focuses on labor market inequality associated with work and occupations in the United States, especially about understanding the unequal mobility patterns by gender, race and social class, and the consequences on well-being outcomes. I also apply an quantitative approach to study how organizational cultures and network structures shape the recent processes of economic markets, for example, the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
I started my graduate program in 2015, and have been trained as an interdisciplinary social scientist since then. I finished my undergraduate study in Economics and Finance at business school and in Laws (second degree) at law school. I love Sociology the most because this discipline cares so much about heterogeneities among us human beings and carries a large amount of deep thinking on how the social world work.
By Oct. 31, 2018