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

In review

• Sidney Xiang, Daniel Romero, Misha Teplitskiy. “Evaluating interdisciplinary research: Disparate outcomes for topic and knowledge-base”.
• Sidney Xiang, Daniel Romero, Misha Teplitskiy. “Research topic choice: Motivations, strategies, and consequences”.

Theses

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

Presentations

• International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2). July 2024. “Evaluating interdisciplinary research: Disparate outcomes for topic and knowledge-base interdisciplinarity”.
• International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI). July 2024. “Evaluating interdisciplinary research: Disparate outcomes for topic and knowledge-base interdisciplinarity”. Runner-up for best student paper.
• 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

• 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

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