Junghwan Yang
Associate Professor
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJunghwan Yang is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, specializing in political communication and media effects using computational methods. With over a decade of experience bridging journalism, mass communication, and quantitative methods, he combines rigorous Ph.D.-level training with hands-on data projects dating back to large-scale Twitter research on the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. He holds faculty honors as the David C. Kleiman Faculty Scholar and has been affiliated with the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, reflecting a strong record of interdisciplinary scholarship and methodological innovation. Trained originally in mechanical and aerospace engineering before pivoting to communication, he brings a systems-oriented lens to studying how digital media shapes public opinion.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Communication, Master's degree, Communication at Seoul National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Journalism and Mass Communication (Minor in Educational Psychology - Quantitative Methods), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Journalism and Mass Communication (Minor in Educational Psychology - Quantitative Methods) at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
camp4
content-analysis1
democracy1
python1
social-media1
twitter1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
junghwanyang/election2016.count
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
junghwanyang/smad-methods
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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