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Yu-Sung Su
Social Science
Tsinghua University
Beijing
Language: English, Chinese
Comparative Politics
Political Development
Political Economy
Latin America
East Asia
Quantitative Methods
Data Analysis
Political Science
Research Methods
Democratization
Areas of Focus
- Comparative Politics
- Comparative Political Development
- Comparative Political Economy
- Latin American and East Asian Politics
- Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analysis
Work Experience
- 2020-12 - Present - Tsinghua University - Professor
- 2020-07 - Present - Tsinghua University - Researcher and Doctoral Supervisor
- 2016-12 - 2020-11 - Tsinghua University - Associate Professor
- 2012-12 - 2016-11 - Tsinghua University - Associate Professor
- 2010 - 2012-11 - Tsinghua University - Lecturer
- 2010 - 2011 - Columbia University - Researcher
- 2008 - 2010 - Columbia University/New York University - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2006 - 2008 - Columbia University - Assistant Researcher
- 2005 - 2006 - University of Michigan - Teaching Assistant
- 2003 - New York University - Teaching Assistant
- 2001 - Taiwan Institute of Economic Research - Research Assistant
- 1998 - Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan - Research Assistant
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2009 - Ph.D. in Political Science: City University of New York
- 2003 - M.A. in Political Science: New York University
- 2002 - M.A. in International Affairs: Columbia University
- 1998 - B.A. in Diplomacy: National Chengchi University
Publications
- A Pattern Recognition Framework for Detecting Changes in Chinese Internet Censorship, Yu-Sung Su, Yanqing Ruan, Siyu Sun, and Yu-tzung Chang, 2020
- Estimating the Influence of Improper Workplace Environment on Human Error: Posterior Predictive Analysis, Pin-Chao Liao, Mei Liu, Yusung Su, Hui Shi, and Xintong Luo, 2018
- Development of Data-Driven Influence Model to Relate the Workplace Environment to Human Error, Pin-Chao Liao, Hui Shi, Yusung Su, and Xintong Luo, 2018
- Could More Civil Society Involvement Increase Public Support for Climate Policy-Making? Evidence from A Survey Experiment in China, Thomas Bernauer, Robert Gampfer, Tianguang Meng, Yu-Sung Su, 2016
- Adjusting Survey Response Distributions Using Multiple Imputation: A Simulation with External Validation, Liu, Frank, C. S. and Yu-Sung Su, 2015
- On the Stationary Distribution of Iterative Imputations, Liu, Jingchen, Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, Yu-Sung Su and Johnathan Kropko, 2014
- Assessing Lack of Common Support in Causal Inference Using Bayesian Nonparametrics: Implications for Evaluating the Effect of Breastfeeding on children's Cognitive Outcomes, Hill, Jennifer and Yu-Sung Su, 2013
- The Effect of Institutional Proximity in Non-Local University-Industry Collaborations: An Analysis Based on Chinese Patent Data, Hong, Wei and Yu-Sung Su, 2013
- Multiple Imputation with Diagnostics (mi) in R: Opening Windows into the Black Box, Su, Yu-Sung, Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill and Masanao Yajima, 2011
- Voting by Education in 2008, Gelman, Andrew and Yu-Sung Su, 2010
- Income Inequality and Partisan Voting in the United State, Gelman, Andrew, Lane Kenworthy, and Yu-Sung Su, 2010
- A Weakly Informative Default Prior Distribution for Logistic and Other Regression Models, Gelman, Andrew, Aleks Jakulin, Maria Grazia Pittau, and Yu-Sung Su, 2009
- It’s Easy to Produce Chartjunk Using Microsoft Excel 2007 But Hard to Make Good Graphs, Su, Yu-Sung, 2008
Awards
- 2020 - Tsinghua University Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor
- 2019 - Best Paper Award, Taiwan Political Science Association
- 2015 - Second Prize, Seventh Higher Education Scientific Research Excellent Achievement Award in Statistics
- 2014 - First Prize, Beijing University Young Teacher Social Research Excellent Achievement Award
- 2012 - Second Prize, Tsinghua University Excellent Teaching Software Award
- 2008 - Ivo Duchacek Award, City University of New York
- 2007 - David Spitz Dissertation Fellowship, City University of New York
- 2007 - Best Paper Award, Taiwan Political Science Association
