Faculty Profile
Xiaolu Wang
Assistant Professor of International Business & Management (2016)
Contact Information
Althouse Hall
717-254-8725
Bio
Dr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Ph.D. in economic sociology from Columbia University (New York). His research interests range from pricing practices, sociology of markets, big data in business, sentiment analysis, pop music markets, digital humanities, causal inference, quantitative methods, to mathematical modeling of social systems. Dr. Wang has published in the Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Cultural Analytics, International Journal of Digital Humanities, Sociological Studies, Economic Sociology Research, and other anthologies. His current research project leverages Big Data, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLMs) to quantitatively study the emotion economies in Chinese mass cultural markets, such as pop music, astrology, intimate-relation reality shows, and online forums for relationship consultation and discussion.
Education
- B.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004
- M.A., Columbia University, 2009
- M. Phil., 2010, Ph.D., 2015