Siyu Liang
Welcome! I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.
My research interests center on political communication and computational social science. Broadly, I study the relationship between media, political communication, and public opinion in both democratic and authoritarian contexts, with particular interests in foreign influence and racial and intergroup attitudes. I examine these questions primarily in the context of China and U.S.–China relations.
As a computational social scientist, I use text analysis, natural language processing, and experimental methods to study these questions across diverse media and political contexts.
My work has been published in Comparative Political Studies and PLOS ONE, as well as in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, including the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) and Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) workshop.
Previously, I was a 2024–25 U.S.-Asia Grand Strategy Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California. My research has been supported by the Stand Together Trust, the RFF Doctoral Dissertation Survey Research Grant, and the UCLA Fellowship in Political Psychology.
I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where I was advised by Chad Hazlett and Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld. I also received an M.S. in Statistics and an M.A. in Political Science from UCLA. I hold B.A. degrees in Political Science and Statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Outside of research, I enjoy hot yoga, hiking, traveling, and exploring new restaurants and bars in the city.