Weihua AnProfessor | Data &Decision Sciences and Sociology

Dr. Weihua An is Professor of Sociology & Data & Decision Sciences and associated faculty of the East Asian Studies Program, the Goizueta Business School, and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University and was a doctoral fellow and a postdoc fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. His research advances theories and methods for network analysis and causal inference with applications to studying inequality and social policy (e.g., immigration, education, housing, and redistributive policy), health (e.g., peer effects, networked interventions, perceived risk, and pandemic preparedness), and organizations. He has published widely in both methodological and substantive journals including Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Networks, Social Science Research, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods and Research, Journal of Statistical Software, and The R Journal and has edited several special issues at top journals. He is also an author of multiple statistical packages, including "fglsnet," "LARF," and "keyplayer" in R and "DIDMatch" in Stata.

• Ph.D, Sociology, Harvard University, 2011
• M.A., Statistics, Harvard University, 2009

• DATASCI 220: Regression Analysis
• DATASCI 385: Advanced Network Analysis