Teaching experience

My teaching experience includes the following courses and workshops:

Undergraduate courses

• C-SoDA Research Practicum: AI and Multimodal Data
  • Penn State University, Spring 2026

• C-SoDA Research Practicum: AI and Governance
  • Penn State University, Fall 2025

• Scientific Study of Politics
  • Penn State University, Fall 2024
  • With Kadir Cihan Duran
  • Syllabus

• Introduction to Political Research
  • Penn State University, Spring 2024
  • Syllabus

• Research Design for Social Data Analytics
  • Penn State University, Fall 2023
  • Syllabus

• Hawkeye Poll
  • University of Iowa, Spring 2022
  • Hawkeye Poll
  • Syllabus

Graduate seminars (serving as TA) and workshops

• Bayesian Modeling for the Social Sciences II:Advanced Topics, ICPSR Program
  • University of Michigan, Summer 2021
  • ICPSR Program
  • Course Syllabus

• Web Scraping
  • East China Normal University, China, Dec 2020

Invited talks and guest lectures

• Hands-On with AI: Evaluating and Applying Models for Social Science Data
  • Social Science Research Institute Open House, Penn State University, Fall 2025

• How to Navigate High Performance Computing
  • Social Science Research Institute Open House, Penn State University, Spring 2025

• GenAI vs. Human Fact-Checkers: Accurate Ratings, Flawed Rationales
  • Approaches and Issues in Big Social Data (graduate), Penn State University, Spring 2025

• LLMs in Social Science
  • Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (graduate), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2024

• Latent Variable Measurements
  • Summer Speaker Series, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, Summer 2023

• Measurement
  • Approaches and Issues in Big Social Data (graduate), Penn State University, Spring 2023