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Please join the Statistical Computing Workshop as they host Yindgan Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Presentation title and abstract forthcoming.

Yingdan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Liu is the director of the Computational Media and Politics Lab, a co-director of the Computational Multimodal Communication Lab, core faculty in Northwestern's Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) and Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) PhD programs, and affiliated with the Center for Communication & Public Policy and Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design.

Liu's research focuses on two areas: the role of digital technologies in authoritarian politics, and multimodal communication across different contexts. Liu's work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, New Media & Society, and Human–Computer Interaction, as well as in peer-reviewed conference proceedings such as the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).

As a computational social scientist, Liu's past and ongoing research has focused on advancing computational methods through the development of new frameworks analyzing multimodal data such as images and videos, the analysis of cross-lingual digital communication, and the promotion of mixed-method research.