Hao Peng

About

I am a PhD candidate in School of Information at University of Michigan. I am advised by Daniel Romero. My research is in computational social science and science of science. I am interested in studying how social factors influence the process of scientific publishing and the dissemination of knowledge, with a goal to improve the equity and quality of science, and amplify its societal impact.

Updates

• 02/2021:   Our paper on journal embeddings was accepted by Science Advances!
• 11/2020:   Our paper on diffusion speed was accepted by PRE!
• 09/2020:  New Scientist wrote a story about our paper on ethnic bias in author mentions in science reporting!
• 09/2019:   Our Echo Demo won the 2nd Prize of the John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest at SciPy 2019!

Work in Progress

• Does the scientific community resist change? Evidence from peer review
  Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco, Karim R. Lakhani
  [Working Paper]

Selected Publications

• Acceptance in Top Journals Shows Large Disparities across Name-inferred Ethnicities
  Hao Peng, Karim R. Lakhani, Misha Teplitskiy
  [In Review] | SocArXiv
• Author Mentions in Science News Reveal Wide-Spread Ethnic Disparities
  Hao Peng, Misha Teplitskiy, David Jurgens
  [In Review] | arXiv
  Press: New Scientist
• Neural Embeddings of Scholarly Periodicals Reveal Complex Disciplinary Organizations
  Hao Peng, Qing Ke, Ceren Budak, Daniel M. Romero, Yong-Yeol Ahn
  Science Advances 7, eabb9004 (2021)
  Link | PDF | arXiv | Code | Map | SI
• Network Modularity Controls the Speed of Information Diffusion
  Hao Peng, Azadeh Nematzadeh, Daniel M. Romero, Emilio Ferrara
  Physical Review E 102, 052316 (2020)
  Link | PDF | arXiv | Code
• Social Influence and Unfollowing Accelerate the Emergence of Echo Chambers
  Kazutoshi Sasahara, Wen Chen, Hao Peng, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
  Journal of Computational Social Science (2020)
  Link | PDF | arXiv | Code | Demo
• Event-Driven Analysis of Crowd Dynamics in the Black Lives Matter Online Social Movement
  Hao Peng, Ceren Budak, Daniel M. Romero
  Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW'19)
  Link | PDF

Fun

I shoot landscape and portrait photography.