Xiaolong Yang
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Welcome! I am a G2 graduate student in Harvard University’s Master’s program of Regional Studies - East Asia at the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
My CV can be found here.
intellectual pursuits
I am broadly interested in the interplay between important technologies and foundational human systems.
statistical software
I have worked on the evalITR R package to expand its support for causal machine learning methods for estimation and evaluation of individualized treatment rules, and more generally heterogeneous treatment effects.
book
My amazing coauthors and I delivered an open source book on the applications of R Markdown in Chinese.
Chunhui Gao, Yifan Wang, Qiushi Yan, Liangliang Zhuang, Xiaolong Yang.
An Authoritative Guide for R Markdown (Tentative English Title). Open-source Publication. 2023.
teaching
Teaching and learning are bonded intellectual activities. I am particularly thankful to Prof. Kosuke Imai and Prof. Connor Jerzak. Thanks to them, I had many opportunities to learn and teach.
I was fortunate to be a part of Prof. Kosuke Imai’s teaching team for the celebrated introductory level data science course for social scientists - QSS at the University of Tokyo in 2022. We taught a series of TA lectures on tidyverse - a popular syntax of R. Slides are provided here.
miscellaneous
Non-academically, I write on my bear blog occasionally.
I also keep my favorite quotes here.
