A researcher in social demography, immigration, and stratification.
A social science writer. A singer-songwriter. A Cantonese in Los Angeles.
A social science writer. A singer-songwriter. A Cantonese in Los Angeles.
Master's graduation picture day, May 2023.
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I am a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a M.S. student in Statistics at University of California, Los Angeles. I am also a graduate student at the California Center for Population Research and the Social Inequality Data Science Lab (SIDS-Lab). I earned an M.A. in Sociology from UCLA in 2022 and a LL.B. in Sociology from Fudan University in 2020.
Being trained as a social demographer, my research focuses on the stratification and mobility of immigrants and other sociodemographic minorities, with a special interest in inequalities in the labor market and higher education. At UCLA, I am fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Jennie Brand and Prof. Andres Villarreal, and work with Distinguished Prof. Min Zhou and Prof. Natasha Quadlin. My work (coauthored with Prof. Andres Villarreal) "Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Employment: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status" is published in PLoS ONE. |
Personal trajectory
Born and raised in Guangzhou, China, I am the third generation of an Indonesian migrant family. I moved to Shanghai to attend Fudan University at the age of 18. One year later, my family relocated to Los Angeles and I began to travel back and forth to juggle my life as a first-generation immigrant in America and my education as a college student in China. My own life trajectory led me to the sociology of immigration and education when I was attending an exchange program at UC Berkeley. During my doctoral training, my scholarly interest expands to various topics in social demography, inequalities and mobility related to the immigrant and ethnic-racial minority populations.
Music
Outside of school, I am a singer-songwriter since 2017. I wrote songs in Mandarin and Cantonese . My songs are available on NetEase Could Music (网易云音乐), QQ Music and KuGou Music (酷狗音乐). You can find them in the Songs page.
