Chyi-In Wu

Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica

Chyi-In Wu is a Research Fellow of the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and is the Principal Investigator of several major social survey projects (i.e., Taiwan Social Change Survey ; Taiwan Rural Social and Population Survey; Taiwan I-Generation Panel Study). He received his PhD in Sociology from Iowa State University in 1993. He is an expert in large scale social survey. His research majorly focuses on the outcomes of adolescent physical and psychological development in a life course perspective. Particularly, he is interested in how social networks influence adolescent well-being. In addition, his research also pays attention to the contextual factors like family, class, school, community and so on to investigate how these structural factors interweaving with adolescent’s social activities and eventually generating impact upon adolescent well-being. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Criminology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Journal of Child and Family Studies, Evolution and Human Behavior, International Sociology, Current Sociology, and his most recent research work on social network appears in the Social Networks.

Appearances

• AI Bias: An Ontology through the Lens of Social Network（Presenter）