About Jielu Yao

Graduate Student

Political Science

University of Iowa

Fields: American, Methods

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Email: jielu-yao@uiowa.edu

Website: http://www.jieluyao.net

Twitter profile: @jielu_yao

Biographical sketch and research interests

Jielu is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Iowa and was a pre-doctoral research fellow at Wesleyan University in 2019. Her research interests center on political methodology and American politics. Particularly, she is interested in applying supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning techniques to non-traditional data such as text, image, video, and audio. She applies these methods to understand (1) the impact of women and minority representatives on policymaking and (2) gender and racial/ethnic difference in candidates’ online campaign strategy. Her dissertation examines how women and minority representatives shaped criminal justice legislation in the U.S.