Shiyi (Eleveny) Chen

I'm a data scientist interested in how communication shapes what people believe about politics — not just what positions they hold, but how those positions come to hang together as recognizable ideologies.

My dissertation uses computational text analysis to study how beliefs become political through communicative processes like deliberation, media exposure, and elite cue-giving. My other work spans polarization and political reasoning, public opinion and survey methodology, institutional dynamics in online communities, social movement discourse, and computational methods for social science research.

I work with Prof. Seth Frey in the Computational Communication (C²) Lab.