Posted February 22nd, 2021 at 1:16 pm
Since the fall, Trang Duong 22 has worked as a researcher with Oxford University’s Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), which is modeling COVID-19 cases and transmission in her home country of Vietnam.
Trang, a math major who is also planning to minor in data science, had been doing her own research on COVID-19 in the summer and, looking for a more formal role, found a data scientist on LinkedIn who is part of the Oxford research unit. I messaged him to learn more about his work. After our chat, he offered me an interview with the head of mathematical modelling at OUCRU and I got an internship offer, she explains. And while the internship ended in January, Trang has been kept on as a research assistant.
, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.
Thanks for taking the time to chat. For those who are unfamiliar with your work, can you briefly describe your research background?
Sure. My expertise really has to do with interpersonal interactions in terms of how people communicate about politics, whether that s in face-to-face interactions or interactions on social media. I m most interested in the social dynamics of those interactions, thinking about how the psychological and physiological experience of those sorts of conversations affect what people say and how they behave in interactions. Then, in the social media space, I am interested in how they interpret other people s political identities and choose to express their own.
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mm-hmm. look, if michael bloomberg you know, a guy who is worth roughly $60 billion, is dedicated to removing donald trump from office, he will stop this foolish idea of running for president. he will put $1 billion into voter registration in florida, ohio, wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, minnesota, he will go up on the air in the states hurt by the trade war with ads that talk about how donald trump s promises were broken to the folks, the farmers and manufacturers in the united states, and nuke him until he glows. he will go out there and he will do digital stuff, he will go out and do a data science program for the democratic candidate. he will go out there and raise money from other people. that s what he wants if you want to get rid of trump, has how to do it if you re a billionaire, not having a vanity project that will buy guys a few extra ferraris or beach houses, but rather, something that has a meaningful political impact. so jason, if you listen to the republicans