Zhao Wang

Dr. Wang is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Masters in Computational Social Science program at The University of Chicago since Fall 2021. Zhao’s research is at the intersection of Machine Learning, Natural language Processing, and Social Media Analysis. She has worked on improving statistical model robustness, exploring computational linguistic models to analyze data from social media platforms and provide insights into social issues, and understanding causal inference in natural language. Examples include detecting deceptive marketing such as greenwashing, measuring the authenticity of public messaging, investigating language treatment effects on human perception, suggesting impression management strategies in online communication, identifying and correcting text classification model bias, modeling the relationship between personality and behavior in online communication. Website: https://zhaowang-iit.github.io/.