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 & Instructor (2022 - present)
  • University of Michigan School of Information
  • Advisors: Daniel Romero, Misha Teplitskiy
• Data Science Intern (Summer 2024)
  • US Government Accountability Office
• Undergraduate Research Assistant (2021 - 2022)
  • Brown University Division of Applied Mathematics
  • Advisor: Björn Sandstede

Publications

• Xiang, S., Romero, D. M., & Teplitskiy, M. (2025). Evaluating interdisciplinary research: Disparate outcomes for topic and knowledge base. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), e2409752122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409752122
• Xiang, S., Romero, D., & Teplitskiy, M. (2025). Research topic choice: Motivations, strategies, and consequences. Quantitative Science Studies, 1–66. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00365
• Xiang, S., Sandstede, B. (2022). Isola bifurcation structures of dynamical systems on random graphs. Undergraduate honors thesis, Brown University Division of Applied Mathematics.

Presentations

• July 2024 - International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). “Evaluating interdisciplinary research: Disparate outcomes for topic and knowledge-base interdisciplinarity”.
• July 2024 - International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI). “Evaluating interdisciplinary research: Disparate outcomes for topic and knowledge-base interdisciplinarity”. Runner-up for best student paper.
• August 2023 - TOM PhD Summer School in Computational Organization Science. “Postmortem promotion’s effect on innovation diffusion: A network approach”. Presented with Honglin Bao, Hong Chen, Joseph Nixon, Matthias Qian, and Rui Sun.
• July 2023 - ISSI Workshop on Team Science and Innovation. “Evaluation of interdisciplinary research in scientific publishing”.
• April 2022 - Brown University Division of Applied Mathematics Senior Thesis Day. “Isola bifurcation structures of dynamical systems on random graphs”.

Teaching

• Graduate Student Instructor - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • SI 506: Programming I (Winter 2025)
  • SI 301: Models of Social Information Processing (Fall 2024)
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Brown University
  • PHYS 70: Analytical Mechanics (Fall 2019)

Service & Other Activities

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