Yapeng Wang

Biography

Yapeng Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, University of Virginia. He earned an MA in sociology from UVA and an MS in Global China Studies from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is interested in social stratification, inequality in higher education and labor markets, and computational social science. His dissertation investigates how mobility pathways are associated with college success for students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. In addition, he is exploring questions related to inequality in higher education in China and graduate education in the US.