{"id":75878,"date":"2026-01-28T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=75878"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:17:03","slug":"yang-lu","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/yang-lu\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang Lu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"marki0z0dcv8b\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Yang<\/span><span>\u00a0Lu is a data analyst at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/research-faculty\/centers\/iecohd\/\">Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity &amp; Healthy Development (IECOHD)<\/a> at Boston University School of Social Work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lu brings research interests and experience in educational inequalities and quantitative social sciences to the research and data projects at IECOHD. Utilizing a range of computational tools, Lu helps develop indicators and maintain the data pipeline for the Child Opportunity Index.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lu earned his master&#8217;s in education policy analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and bachelor&#8217;s in economics and urban studies from McGill University. Before graduate school, he was a dean\u2019s fellow of new students and diversity at New York University in Shanghai.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25047,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/75878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/75878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82539,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/75878\/revisions\/82539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}