Overview

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Social Research Methods at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Ph.D. Affiliate at the LSE Data Science Institute. I was a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale University.

I am on the academic job market for 2025–26.

My research spans human–AI communication, computational communication, and digital governance, with a focus on human-centered evaluation of large language models and AI-mediated information systems. Substantively, I examine how generative AI and AI-mediated information reshape public trust, communicative reasoning, and decision-making, with implications for governance and institutional legitimacy across sociopolitical contexts. Methodologically, I combine controlled LLM generation, computational text, image, and network analysis with human–AI conversational experiments and large-scale surveys.

My key research projects include my job market paper that is Revise and Resubmit at Telematics and Informatics, and a publication in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio). I am working on a paper targeting PNAS, supported by grants from LSE, OpenAI, Google, and the Social Science Research Council (USA).

I also have teaching experience in quantitative methods and communication-related courses, with formal pedagogical training and an excellent average teaching evaluation (4.97/5).

My CV is here. Please feel free to contact me at c.wang85@lse.ac.uk.