Si Wu

Ph.D. student, Political Science

Si is a Ph.D. student in political science, and a Graduate Student Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. Her research interests include Chinese and American politics, gender, race and class, media, and quantitative methodology. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Imperial College London, U.K., and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Northeastern University. As part of her program at Northeastern, she interned at the Harvard Data Science Initiative and also worked with professors at Tufts University and MIT to conduct data science research on gerrymandering. She has worked with faculty members at Northeastern to publish an article on Twitter sentiment analysis. For her dissertation, Si is interested in exploring problems in both authoritarian and democratic societies – specifically issues regarding race, gender, class – from a data-oriented perspective.