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 papers are all published, under review, or in preparation for leading journals. These 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 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.