Welcome to Ye Wang's Homepage!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research centers on political methodology, with a focus on developing and applying causal inference methods for the social sciences. I am especially interested in understanding spillover effects generated by policies or events across time, space, and networks, as well as machine learning and statistical inference more broadly.

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I received my Ph.D. from the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University in 2021, and my dissertation was awarded the John T. Williams Prize by the Society for Political Methodology in 2020. My work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, PNAS, Annals of Applied Statistics, and Political Analysis. I will be on academic leave in Spring 2026 and will be visiting the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.

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You can reach me via email: yewang [at] unc.edu.