Overview

Welcome! I am a final-year 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 researcher at the Department of Political Science, Yale University.

My research examines how digital transformation in public administration and policy reshapes accountability, decision-making, and institutional legitimacy, combining experimental and computational methods. Substantively, I study how AI transparency policies, AI-assisted deliberation, and algorithmic decision-making affect public trust, administrative judgment, and policy outcomes in China and beyond. Methodologically, I combine survey experiments and citizen–state conversational experiments with computational text, image, and network analysis.

My key research projects include my job market paper published in Telematics and Informatics (SSCI Q1), and a publication in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio, SSCI Q1). I have articles under review at Governance, Policy & Internet, and Government Information Quarterly, supported by grants from LSE, OpenAI, Google, and the Social Science Research Council (USA).

I also have teaching experience in quantitative methods, public policy, and comparative politics 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.