Xingyuan Zhao

PhD candidate in Political Science and Computational Social Science at the University of Texas at Dallas.

My research combines LLM-based annotation, causal inference, and evaluation methods with substantive questions about AI governance, political communication, and comparative politics.

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Timeline

Appointments and degrees, with research papers placed in those years.

2025–2027

Research Assistant, National Science Foundation

At the University of Texas at Dallas I develop LLM pipelines for noisy corpora and evaluation frameworks for responsible research use of LLMs.

2022–2024

Teaching Assistant

Taught lab sessions in quantitative methods, data collection, knowledge mining, data visualization, and machine learning for text data; lectured for math and coding camps and research initiatives.

Teaching
2022–2027

Ph.D. in Political Science

Computational Social Science focus, University of Texas at Dallas.

2024–2027

M.S. in Social Data and Analytics Research

University of Texas at Dallas.

2026

M.S. in Computer Science

University of Colorado Boulder.

2019–2021

M.A. in Global Studies

Chinese University of Hong Kong.