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 --- an interdisciplinary field that utilizes data-driven and computational approaches to examine the knowledge of science itself. I am particularly interested in studying how social factors influence the process of scholarly publishing and the dissemination of scientific knowledge, with a goal to improve the equity, inclusion, and quality of science, and amplify its societal impact.

Updates

• 11/2020:   Our paper on diffusion speed got accepted by PRE!
• 09/2020:  Ah, 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!

Selected Works

• Author Mentions in Science News Reveal Wide-Spread Ethnic Bias
  H. Peng, M. Teplitskiy, D. Jurgens
  [arXiv] [In Review]
• Neural Embeddings of Scholarly Periodicals Reveal Complex Disciplinary Organizations
  H. Peng, Q. Ke, C. Budak, D.M. Romero, Y.Y. Ahn
  [arXiv] [In Review]
• Network Modularity Controls the Speed of Information Diffusion
  H. Peng, A. Nematzadeh, D.M. Romero, E. Ferrara
  Physical Review E 102, 052316 (2020)
• Event-Driven Analysis of Crowd Dynamics in the Black Lives Matter Online Social Movement
  H. Peng, C. Budak, D.M. Romero
  Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW'19)

Fun

I like taking photos!