• WELCOME

    I am a social scientist interested in social networks, mathematical sociology, and computational social science. I study social influence in the political, economic, and school contexts. My research aims to understand various substantive topics including political polarization, product diffusion, friendship segregation, and intergroup relations. Methodologically, I use agent-based modeling, field experiments, and longitudinal network analysis. Previously I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University's Network Science Institute and D'Amore-McKim School of Business, working in the Collective Social Systems lab. Here's my CV and my profile page at CUHK's sociology department.

  • NEWS

    2019 December

    • I have accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I will begin my new job in June, 2020!

    2019 August

    • Presented "A Consolidation Model of Political Polarization" at the ASA meeting in New York. 

    2019 May

    • Presented a poster titled "Peer Effect Heterogeneity in Product Adoption in a Large-scale Mobile Field Experiment" (with Christoph Riedl and David Lazer) at NetiSci 2019, Burlington, VT.

    2018 August

    2018 May

  • RESEARCH

    Publication

    Singh, Mudit Kumar and Jaemin Lee. 2020. “Social Inequality and Access to Social Capital in Microfinance Interventions” Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 40(7): 575-588. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-01-2020-0024

     

    Trinh, Sarah L., Jaemin Lee, Carolyn T. Halpern, and James Moody. 2019. “Our Buddies, Ourselves: The Role of Sexual Homophily in Adolescent Friendship Networks.” Child Development 90(1): e132-e147 https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13052

     

    Bail, Christopher A., Lisa Argyle, Taylor Brown, John Bumpus, Haohan Chen, M. B. Fallin Hunzaker, Jaemin Lee, Marcus Mann, Friedolin Merhout, and Alexander Volfovsky. 2018. “Exposure to Opposing Views on Social Media Can Increase Political Polarization.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 155(37): 9216-9221 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804840115

     

     

    Lee, Jaemin and Jeonghan Kang. 2011. “지식생산의 구조와 이론사회학의 위상: 『사회와 이론의 키워드 네트워크 분석』2004~2010." [Mapping Knowledge Domains: The Structure of Knowledge Production and the Status of Theory in Sociology 2004-2010] 사회와이론 [Society and Theory] 19(2): 89-144. http://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/NODE02248730

    Work in Progress

    "The Value of Complex Contagions as a Seeding Strategy in Viral Marketing"

    "Disentangling Segregation and Conflict: Crowds, Race, and the Formation of Enmities in Adolescence"

    "The Social Origins of Political Polarization"

     

  • EDUCATION

    Duke University

    PhD 2018

    Sociology

    Yonsei University

    BA 2009, MA 2012

    Sociology

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