CV

Education

• Ph.D in Information Science, University of Michigan School of Information (2022 - present)
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics & B.A. in Physics, Brown University (2018 - 2022)

Experience

• Graduate Student Research Assistant (2022 - present)
  • University of Michigan School of Information
  • Advisors: Daniel Romero, Misha Teplitskiy
• Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021 - 2022)
  • Brown University Division of Applied Mathematics
  • Advisor: Björn Sandstede

In preparation

• Sidney Xiang, Daniel Romero, and Misha Teplitskiy. “Scope narrowly, cite widely: Evaluations of research vary with interdisciplinarity of topic and knowledge-base”.

Theses

• Sidney Xiang. “Isola bifurcation structures of dynamical systems on random graphs”. Undergraduate thesis, Brown University, 2022.

Presentations

• TOM PhD Summer School in Computational Organization Science. August 2023. “Postmortem promotion’s effect on innovation diffusion: A network approach”. Presented with Honglin Bao, Hong Chen, Joseph Nixon, Matthias Qian, and Rui Sun.
• ISSI Workshop on Team Science and Innovation. July 2023. “Evaluation of interdisciplinary research in scientific publishing”.
• Brown University Division of Applied Mathematics Senior Thesis Day. April 2022. “Isola bifurcation structures of dynamical systems on random graphs”.
• Ivy League Bands Conference. April 2021. Organized and moderated as President of the Brown University Band.

Teaching

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Brown University
  • PHYS 70: Analytical Mechanics (Fall 2019)

Service

• Co-organizer of the UMSI Computational Social Science Lunchtime Working Group (August 2023 - present)
• President of the Brown University Band (November 2020 - November 2021)