Lili Miao

Lili Miao

Ph.D. student at Indiana University Bloomington

I am Lili Miao, a computational social science researcher who specializes in studying science policy and the science of science to understand national scientific competitiveness. I am currently completing my Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington under the guidance of Professor Yong-Yeol Ahn and Cassidy Sugimoto.

My research interests lie at the intersection of computational social science and the science of science. Specifically, I develop and utilize computational approaches to investigate the underlying universal patterns of scientific enterprise and the intricate interactions between science and society.

My CV is available for download here.

đź“– Educations

đź’» Academic Positions

  • 07/2016–present, Research Assistant, Department of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
  • 06/2018–07/2018, Visiting Student, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.
  • 06/2015–05/2016, Research Assistant, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
  • 06/2014–05/2015, Research Assistant, New England Complex Systems Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

đź“ť Publications

Articles

  • Lili Miao, Dakota Murray, Woo-Sung Jung, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Yong-Yeol Ahn. “The latent structure of national scientific development”. In: Nature Human Behaviour 6 (2022), pp. 1206–1217.

  • Lili Miao, Vincent Larivière, Feifei Wang, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. “Cooperation and dependence in global science funding landscape”. (Submitted to Science Advancce). arXiv:2308.08630[econ.GN]

  • Zaida Chinchilla-Rodrìguez, Lili Miao, NicolĂ s obinson-Garcìa Dakota Murray, Rodrigo Costas, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. “A global comparison of scientific mobility and collaboration according to national scientific capacities”. In: Frontiers in research metrics and analytics 3 (2018), p. 17.

  • Jing Zhao, Lili Miao, Jian Yang, Haiyang Fang, Qianming Zhang, Min Nie, Petter Holme, and Tao Zhou. “Prediction of links and weights in networks by reliable routes”. In: Scientific reports 5.1 (2015), pp. 1–15.

  • Zaida Chinchilla-Rodrìguez, Lili Miao, NicolĂ s obinson-Garcìa Dakota Murray, Rodrigo Costas, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. “Networks of international collaboration and mobility: a comparative study”. In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Scientometrics Informetrics. Wuhan, China, Oct. 2017.

  • Lili Miao, Qianming Zhang, Dacheng Nie, and Shimin Cai. “Whether information network supplements friendship network”. In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 419 (2015), pp. 301–306.

Working In Progress

  • The scientific cost of nationalism: evidence from the Brexit experiment (Lead author; with Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Yong-Yeol Ahn).

  • Knowledge production inequality in today’s China. (Lead author; with Mengxue Zheng, Yi Bu).

  • Perpetual power imbalance in contemporary scientific international collaboration. (Lead author; with Byungkyu Lee, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Yong-Yeol Ahn).

đź’¬ Selected Talks

Conference talks

  • Lili Miao, Vincent Larivière, Feifei Wang, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Yong-Yeol Ahn. Cooperation and dependence in global science funding. Atlanta, USA: ATLC2023, 2023.

  • Lili Miao, Dakota Murray, Woo-Sung Jung, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Yong-Yeol Ahn. The latent structure of national scientific development. virtual: NetSci2020, 2021.

  • Lili Miao, Dakota Murray, Woo-Sung Jung, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Yong-Yeol Ahn. The latent structure of national scientific development. Burlington, Vermont, USA: NetSci2019, 2019.

  • Lili Miao, Dakota Murray, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodrìguez, Vincent Larivière, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. Glass boundaries: Differences in interdisciplinarity between men and women. Paris, France: STI2017, 2017.

  • Zaida Chinchilla-Rodrìguez, Lili Miao, NicolĂ s obinson-Garcìa Dakota Murray, Rodrigo Costas, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. A large-scale comparison of the position of countries in international collaboration and mobility according to their scientific capacities. Paris, France: STI2017, 2017.

🤝 Services

Reviewer

  • Nature Human Behaviour, Quantitative Science Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, PLoS ONE, Complexity, Scientometrics, Technovation, ISSI: 2023, Chinese Journal of Sociology

🎖 Awards and Fellowships

  • 2022 Excellence in Research, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, 2021-2022

  • 2022 Best Poster Award, International Conference on The Science of Science & Innovation

  • 2019 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Fellowship, Complex Networks and System, Indiana University