Yiang Li is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is also a NIA T32 Program in the Demography and Economics of Aging Predoctoral Trainee at the Center on Healthy Aging Behaviors and Longitudinal Investigations (CHABLIS) and a Student Affiliate at the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago.

His research broadly focuses on: Social Demography, Health, Family, Neighborhood, Aging and the Life Course, and Statistical Methods. His current topics of investigation use statistical and/or computational techniques to 1) examine the contextual drivers that shape and perpetuate health inequalities over the life course, especially the potential synergistic effects and interactions between neighborhood context, family dynamics, and social relationships; 2) uncover the early-life precursors and underlying social mechanisms behind stratified life trajectories, such as gendered body shape standards, network homophiles, and assortative mating, that contribute to the intricate tapestry of health and social stratification; 3) utilizing comparative approach to study variegated social processes along the life course led to diverging population health trajectories.

Yiang received his MA in Computational Social Science from the University of Chicago in 2024 and First-Class BSc (Hons) in Social Sciences with Quantitative Methods from University College London (UCL) in 2022.

His research work has been published in The Lancet Regional Health, Frontiers in Public Health, and the Journal of Computational Social Science, among other peer-reviewed journals.

Yiang can be reached via email: yiangli@uchicago.edu and his CV can be found here.