RONGXIN OUYANG (CV)
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Rongxin Ouyang
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EDUCATION
PhD student in Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, 2023-2027 (expected)
Societal and political implications of technologies; computational and causal approaches.
GPA: 4.0/4.0
MA in Communication, minor in Finance, Peking University, 2018-21
Dissertation: “Ascribed Inequality and the ‘Disadvantaged Chance’ in Online Social Capital: The Case of GitHub in China”
Committee: Changjiang Yu (chair), Shubin Yu , Jing Meng
Advisor: Weiming Ye, AP; interested in platform labor, ICTs & society
GPA: 3.4/4.0
BA in Journalism, studied Law, China University of Political Science and Law, 2014-18
Advisor: Kai Cui, AP; interested in methodology, social impacts of media
GPA: 4.4/6.5
RESEARCH
Working Papers
Ouyang, R., Yu, J., Cui, K., Ye, W. & Mukerjee, S. (2024). Decreased Innovations by Censorship.
Ouyang, R., Mukerjee, S. & Yang, T. (2023). Metrics in Action: How Social Media Metrics Shape News Production on Twitter.
Ouyang, R. & Ye, W. (2023). Ascribed Inequality and the “Disadvantaged Chance” in Online Social Capital: The Case of GitHub in China.
Peer-reviewed Journals
Ouyang, R. (2024). Laine Nooney, The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal. International Journal of Communication, 18, 3. (SJR-Q1)
Ye, W. & Ouyang, R. (2020). Restructuring Time and Space: Research on Algorithm Mediated Online Labor. Zhejiang Academic Journal, 2, 167-176. (CSSCI)
- Reprinted (2020) by Theoretical Economics of Replicated Journals of Renmin University of China (CSSCI-equivalent)
- Awarded (2020) Qihao Academic Research Awards (national)
Conference Presentations
Ouyang, R., Jaidka, K., Mukerjee, S. (2024). Visual Narratives in the Digital Age: Enhancing Online Content Analysis Through Automatic Image Captioning. the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Gold Coast, Australia. (session chair, top)
Zhang, T., Tong, Y., Zhan, J., Ouyang, R. (2024). Illusion of Knowing in Colorectal Cancer Prevention: From Media Attention to Efficacy Perception and Screening Intention. the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Gold Coast, Australia. (top)
Ouyang, R., Yu, J. (2024). Large Language Model Outperforms Human in Content Analysis: A Cross-Domain, Bilingual Experiment. the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Gold Coast, Australia. (top)
Ouyang, R. & Ye, W. (2020). Inequality of Online Social Capital: Evidence from GitHub in China. the Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Beijing, China (online due to Covid, top).
Ye, W., Ouyang, R. (2019). Learning to Take Orders: Time and Space Research on Algorithm Mediated Online Labor. The Fifth Forum on Internet Anthropology. Guangzhou, China.
Ouyang, R. (2019). Decentralization? Large-scale SNA on an Open Source Community. the 2019 annual conference of China Computational Communication Research Association. Guangzhou, China.
GRANTS & HONORS
Grants
Research Scholarship, Singapore, 2023 - Now
ICA Registration Fee Waiver, Australia, 2024
NSF Conference Travel Grant, United States, 2023
Conference Travel Grant, China, 2019, 2020
Graduate Student Scholarship, China, 2018-2021
The First Prize Scholarship, China, 2017
National Scholarship, China, 2017
National Encouragement Scholarship, China, 2015, 2016
Honors
Honors Graduates, 2018, 2021
Qihao Academic Research Award, 2020
Merit Student, 2017, 2019
SOCIAL SERVICE
Invited Talks
Decreased Innovations by Censorship, 2024
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Automated Content Analysis, 2023
Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Practical Web Scraping, 2023
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Journal Peer-review
New Media & Society (SJR-Q1, SSCI-Q1, IF 5.0), peer-review, 2023 / 2024
Conference Peer-review & Session Chair
The Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, session chair & peer-review, 2024
International Conference on Computational Social Science, peer-review, 2024
WORKING & SKILLS
Teaching
Workshop (organizer and speaker), Causal Inference, Online, 2023
TA, Globalization and New Media, NUS, 2024
TA, Quantitative Methods, NUS, 2023
TA, Applied Data Analytics (quantitative research methods), PKU, 2020
TA, New Media and Society, PKU, 2019
Working
Product Designer , OPPO, 2021-22
Responsible for: game distribution, data infrastructure, and governance
Led: a ML-driven recommendation system, statistical interval estimation based UI improvements, and best practice in privacy
Product Designer (Internship), Kuaishou, 2020-21
Responsible for: video editor, data-driven strategies, and a major user survey
Led: video stabilization and survey implementation; supported subtitle editing
Skills
Programming: Python, R, Vue.js
Computational Methods: SNA, NMF, Frex, Bert, TF-IDF, GBDT, O/PLS
Software: Pandas, Polars, SPSS, SmartPLS, lavaan, ggplot2, PROCESS, netX, Gephi, sklearn, Gensim
Language: English: proficient (TOEFL 104, IELTS 7, GRE 320); Chinese: native
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(Last update: April, 2024)