Biography

My name, Qi, reads “key”. I’m trained in both social science and natural science. My research interests include human (verbal) communication, group dynamics, and social systems. I apply mathematical and computational models to social topics. I lead a research project at U.S. Institute of Peace, where I model reconciliation, trust building and counter violent extremism by applying methods like network based ABM, Markov Models and machine learning.

I read extensively. Some of my all-time-favorate writers include Sartre, Marx, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and 鲁迅. “遍览周王传,流观山海图”,我是一个学术探险家(academic adventurist).

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Interests

  • Conflict Reconciliation
  • Counter Violent Extremism
  • Political Philosophy
  • Conspiracy Theories

Education

  • PhD in Communication Science (Social Psychology), 2020

    Michigan State University

  • MA in Communication Arts and Sciences, 2015

    University of Miami

  • BSc in Material Physics, 2011

    Sichuan University

Skills

R

70%

Python

70%

Physics

60%

Statistics

90%

Calculus

90%

Linear Algebra

90%

Psychometrics

80%

Classical Chinese Language and Literature

100%

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Contractor

United States Institute of Peace

Sep 2019 – Present Washington D.C.

Responsibilities include:

  • Strategizing
  • Theorizing
  • Analysing
  • Modelling
 
 
 
 
 

Intern Journalist

Beijing Youth Daily

Sep 2012 – Dec 2012 Beijing
Published articles and won a story-of-the-month award

Accomplish­ments

Deep Learning with R

self taught Abhijit Ghatak’s book. set up tensorflow in R and built a code set for CNN and RNN tasks

Tensor Calculus

youtube course by MathTheBeautiful

Semantic Network Analysis

summer school

Projects

unpublished papers

How is group communication possible?:Possibilities and explorations

verbal communication as a computation process

random assignment doesn’t work (as perfectly as experimenters assume)

the problem that social science overly rely on random assignment