Jie Hua (华 杰)

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I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Demography at the School of Population and Health, Renmin University of China, under the supervision of Professor Ting Li. My research focuses on marriage and family, and I am committed to extending computational methods to classic demographic topics, particularly integrating multi-source data. I am also interested in public health, including simulating population health and exploring social stratification in health communication.

I'm visiting the Knowledge Lab at UChicago until August 2025.

Research Interests: Computational Social Science, Family and Marriage, Population Health, Quantitative Methods

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate, Demography, Renmin University of China2022-2026(Expected)
Visiting Student, Sociology, University of Chicago2024-2025
M.S. Social Data Science, University of Oxford2010-2021
B.A. Sociology, Southeast University2016-2020

VISIT & WORKSHOP

Quantitative Social Science Workshop, Peking University2024.7
Survey Data Archive Seminar, University of Tokyo2023.12
Data Science Intensive Studies Program, Stanford University2019.6-2019.8

SKILLS

Programming: Python, R
Statistical Software: Stata, SAS, SPSS, ArcGIS, Gephi, NetLogo

HONORS AND AWARDS

PhD Second-Class Scholarship (3 times)2022-2024
Most Influential Graduates (Academic Type) Finalist2020
‘He Qinfen’ Fund Scholarship2019
National Scholarship2017