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Han Zhang is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Sociology and the Watson School for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and dual bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and History from Peking University.
- Ph.D. in Sociology, 2020 - Princeton University
- B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in History (minor), 2013 - Peking University
His research combines computational social science methods with substantive expertise in social movements and digital surveillance. He develops machine-learning algorithms for creating large-scale datasets from image and text sources to analyze protest dynamics, media bias, and state control mechanisms.
Recent publications focus on protest event analysis in China, global surveillance camera density mapping, and methodological innovations for social science image analysis. His work has been recognized with best paper awards from the American Sociological Association and the International Communication Association.
- Patriarchal Erasure and Manufactured Passivity (2024) - Asymmetric media attention to protests in China
- Surveillance Camera Density Dataset (2023) - Global mapping of surveillance infrastructure
- Automated Image Clustering (2022) - Methodological contributions for visual data analysis
Han Zhang teaches courses on surveillance systems, computational social science, and econometric approaches to social research. His advised students have been placed at prestigious institutions including Harvard, LSE, and UC San Diego. He actively collaborates with researchers like Jennifer Pan and Yao Lu on China-focused studies.
