Yongjun Zhang 

Yongjun Zhang joined SBU in 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Advanced Computational Science and in the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Arizona (2020), where he also earned a Computational Social Science Certificate.
 
He is a computational and quantitative sociologist studying politics, organizations, networks, and inequality.  His current work combines statistical, network, and computational methods with big data such as large-scale GPS data, administrative records (e.g., FEC records, voter files, and consumer profiles), and social media data (e.g., billions of tweets) to study mobility, segregation, and polarization among different settings in the U.S. and the globe. He has published in top journals such as American Journal of Sociology and Demography.