Ziyao Tian
Research Associate
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolZiyao Tian is a Research Associate at Pew Research Center specializing in Asian American demography and race & ethnicity research, drawing on nine years of quantitative and qualitative research experience. He earned a PhD in Sociology from Princeton, where he also taught applied social statistics and data visualization, signaling strong methodological rigor and pedagogy. His background includes cross-national fieldwork and archival coding in China, large-scale survey analysis using R, Stata, Tableau, and NVivo, and published evaluation work informing program design. Based in Washington, D.C., Ziyao blends deep regional expertise in East Asia with U.S. racial-ethnic analysis, and maintains an active public research presence at ziyaotian.com and @TianZiyao. An unexpected note: he pairs academic precision with an approachable online persona—his GitHub tagline reads “Life is like a box of chocolates,” hinting at a humanistic curiosity behind the data.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), East Asian Studies, 4.00/4.00, Master of Arts (M.A.), East Asian Studies, 4.00/4.00 at Stanford UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology at Princeton University4.00/4.00, 4.00/4.00 at University of TorontoBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology, 3.75/4.00, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology, 3.75/4.00 at Peking UniversityArts Track, Arts Track at High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (RDFZ)
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
objective-c10
swift10
macos10
ios10
cocoapods9
xcode9
carthage9
hexo8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tianziyao/Jsonful
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch, 9 tags in 2 months
tianziyao/demo
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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