Siyu Liang is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and an MS student in Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests are computational social science and political communication, with a focus on examining media dynamics within both authoritarian and democratic countries. Broadly, she studies Chinese transnational propaganda and the impact of U.S.-China relations on Asian Americans. Methodologically, she conducts text analysis and natural language processing, with a specific focus on stance detection. Her project includes a series of papers that explore media influence on the perception of China, investigating perspectives both within China and the United States. She received her B.A. in Political Science and Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
