Overview

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Social Research Methods at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Ph.D. Affiliate at the LSE Data Science Institute. I am a Visiting Assistant in Research at Department of Political Science at Yale University.

I am on the academic job market for 2025–26.

My research spans AI governance and policy, political communication, and computational social science. Substantively, I examine how governance strategies and generative AI jointly affect citizens’ perceptions of political information, constrain political expression, and influence policy support. These dynamics can produce unintended consequences across political systems. Methodologically, I combine human-AI conversational experiments, survey experiments, computational text and image analysis, and social network analysis.

I have authored 8 papers, all published, under review, or in preparation for leading journals. These include my job market paper under review at PNAS Nexus, and a publication in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio). I am working on a paper targeting PNAS, supported by grants from LSE, OpenAI, and Google, alongside additional studies in progress for reputable political science journals.

My teaching experence include courses related to comparative politics, political communication, Asian studies, and quantitative methods, with formal pedagogical training and excellent teaching evaluations.

My CV is here. Please feel free to contact me at c.wang85@lse.ac.uk.