Yongren Shi. August, Yale University office: (607) Hillhouse Avenue, Rm 314 website: yongrenshi.weebly.com New Haven, CT 06511

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1 Yongren Shi August, 2016 Yale Institute for Network Science Yale University office: (607) Hillhouse Avenue, Rm 314 website: yongrenshi.weebly.com New Haven, CT Academic Positions: 2016-: Post-doctoral Associate, Yale Institute for Network Science, New Haven, CT. Education: Ph.D. Sociology, Cornell University, Dissertation Title: Three Studies of Social Dynamics. Committee: Michael W. Macy (Chair), Douglas D. Heckathorn, Edward J. Lawler. Master of Engineering Industrial Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Thesis Title: Complex Adaptive Systems and Models and Simulations of Social Systems. Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Research Interests: Social Networks; Organizations and Ecology; Public Opinions; Sociology of Culture; Social Psychology; Computational Methods in Social Sciences. Peer Reviewed Journal Publications: Shi, Yongren, Fedor Dokshin, Michael Genkin and Matthew E. Brashears. A Member Saved is a Member Earned? The Recruitment-Retention Trade-Off and Organizational Strategies for Membership Growth. Conditional acceptance at American Sociological Review. Shi, Yongren, Chris Cameron and Douglas Heckathorn. Model-based and Design-based Inference: Reducing Bias Due to Differential Recruitment in Respondent-Driven Sampling. Forthcoming at Sociological Methods and Research. Shi, Yongren and Michael W. Macy Measuring Structural Similarity in Large Online Networks Social Science Research. 59: DellaPosta, Daniel, Yongren Shi and Michael W. Macy Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes? American Journal of Sociology. 120(5): Outstanding Article Publication Award at the Mathematical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. Press coverage: BBC News, Boston Globe, National Affairs, London School of Economics, TheSocietyPage, ChinaDaily. Shi, Yongren, Liang Gao, Jiang Zhang Agent-Based Computational Economics and its Application in Supply Networks. Complex Systems and Complexity Science. Vol.3: (Chinese)

2 Working Papers: Suh, Chan, Yongren Shi and Matthew Brashears. Negligible Connections? The Role of Familiar Others in the Diffusion of Smoking among Adolescents. (Minor R&R at Social Forces) Feng Shi*, Yongren Shi*, Fedor Dokshin, Michael W. Macy and James Evans. Millions of Online Book Co-purchases Reveal Partisan Differences in the Consumption of Science. (Under review at Nature Human Behavior) (* co-first authors with equal contribution.) Behler, Rachel, Chan S. Suh, Matthew E. Brashears and Yongren Shi. Familiar Faces, Familiar Spaces: Social Similarity and Co-Presence in Non-Relational Behavioral Convergence. (Under Review at Social Networks) Lifestyle Politics and Political Polarization on Social Media. (with Michael Macy, Kai Mast and Ingmar Weber) Spanning in the Music Scene: Differential Effects of Genre Spanning on Listeners Evaluation. (with Yisook Lim and Chan S. Suh) Other Publications (including peer-reviewed conference paper and book review): Heckathorn, Douglas D., Christopher Cameron, and Yongren Shi Respondent-Driven Sampling: Origins, Current Developments, and Alternative Estimators. By Proceedings of the International Methodology Symposium 2013, Statistics Canada, Ottawa. Shi, Yongren Is it Possible to Create Life in Computer? Review of the Book Digital Genesis - The New Science of Artificial Life. Studies in Dialectics of Nature. Vol. 23: (Chinese) Shi, Yongren, Jiang Zhang, Liang Gao and Chi Zhou Scale-Free Networks Emerge out of Micro-Mechanism in an Agent-based Computational Economic Model. IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics Gao, L., C. Zhou, H.B. Gao, Y.R. Shi Credit scoring model based on neural network with particle swarm optimization. Advances in Natural Computation, Gao, L., C. Zhou, H.B. Gao, Y.R. Shi Combining particle swarm optimization and neural network for diagnosis of unexplained syncope. Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics, Fellowship, Grants and Awards: 2016 Dissertation-in-Progress Award of ASA Mathematical Sociology Outstanding Article Publication Award of ASA Mathematical Sociology ; Sage Fellowship, Cornell University.

3 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. $6, Winner, Visualization Competition, Department of Sociology, Cornell University Amazon Web Service in Education Research grant. $ National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Examining Social Clustering and Division via Patterns of Purchasing and Reviewing. $11,938. PI: Michael W. Macy, Co-PI: Yongren Shi. 2013, 2016 Graduate School Travel Grants, Cornell University Excellent Graduation Thesis Award in Hubei Province, HUST Complex System Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, at Beijing Swarm Robots. Undergraduate Innovation Project Grant, HUST. Research Experiences: Fall, 2013 August, 2015 May, 2012 August, 2015 Fall, 2012 Spring, 2013 Fall, 2008 Fall, Spring, 2007 Consultant for Center of Disease Control (CDC) project on Respondent Driven Sampling Analysis Tool (RDSAT) Development and SAS Interface. PI. Douglas Heckathorn. Research Assistant, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) project Covert Social Networks. PI. Matthew Brashears. Research Assistant, National Institutes of Health (NIH) project Statistical and Sociological Development of Respondent-Driven Sampling. PI. Douglas Heckathorn. Research Assistant, National Science Foundation project Very Large Semi- Structured Datasets for Social Science Research. PI. Michael Macy. Research Assistant, National High Tech R&D Program in China, Theory and Methods for Dynamic Scheduling Based on Complexity Science. PI. Liang Gao. Teaching Experiences: Teaching Assistant for Introduction of Sociology (Fall, 2009; Spring, 2011; Spring, 2012; led discussion sessions twice per week); Social Inequality (Spring, 2010); Controversies about Inequalities (Fall, 2010; Fall, 2011; led 6 debates each semester). Invited or Professional Presentations: How music genres are perceived and reconstructed in the consumer market? INSNA Sunbelt Conference (Newport Beach, CA). April, How music genres are perceived and reconstructed in the consumer market? Cornell Sociology Research Symposium (Ithaca, NY). March, 2016.

4 Can We Agree on Science? Millions of book co-purchases reveal the political alignment and polarization of U.S. science. Department of Sociology, the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA). February, (Invited) Studies of Political and Cultural Polarization Using Online Datasets. Yale Institute for Network Science (New Haven, CT). November, Pulp Friction: Book Co-Purchasing Patterns of Conservative and Liberal American. Brown Bag Series Talk, Cornell Sociology. (Ithaca, NY). November, Is Greed Good? An Ecological Analysis of Organizational Membership. American Sociological Association, Mathematical Sociology Section (San Francisco, CA). August, Is Greed Good? An Ecological Analysis of Organizational Membership. Sunbelt Conference (St. Peter, FL). Feb., A Study of Opinion Polarization Using Amazon Book Data. INSNA conference (Xi an, China). July, 2013 Network Autocorrelation and Opinion Dynamics. Graduate Student Mini-conference, Department of Sociology. (Ithaca, NY) Skills in Computation: Proficient Python (Networkx, igraph, Pandas, parallel python, numpy, scipy, mrjob), R, Gephi, Amazon Web Service. Intermediary Java, SAS, C++, C, SQL, Mapreduce, topic modeling, natural language processing, data-mining, Stata, Delphi. Ad hoc reviewer for: American Sociological Review; Social Science Research. References: Michael W. Macy (Committee Chair) Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences Department of Sociology Cornell University 372 Uris Hall, Ithaca, New York mwm14@cornell.edu Douglas D. Heckathorn Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Cornell University 344 Uris Hall, Ithaca, New York douglas.heckathorn@cornell.edu Matthew E. Brashears Associate Professor

5 Department of Sociology University of South Carolina Sloan College, Rm Pickens Street Columbia, SC