Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University Yi-Wen Wang is Associate Professor in the Design School, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her research focuses on social and cultural issues of heritage-led regeneration in both urban and rural contexts. Her research work is mainly concerned with the protection of unassuming, quotidian structures as heritage, exploring the conservation issues surrounding 20th-century architecture and planning.
Ph.D. Student in Political Science, Northeastern University Yunus Emre Tapan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University, specializing in Political Methodology and Comparative Politics. He completed a graduate certificate program in Computational Social Science. He graduated with an MSc in Middle East Studies from Middle East Technical University and a BA in Economics from Bogazici University in Turkey. Before joining Northeastern, he worked as a Lecturer at Kadir Has University and researcher at a non-partisan think tank in Ankara, Turkey. He has a strong background in online extremism and radicalization. He employs machine learning, computational text, and network analysis methods to explore digital trace data.
PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Toronto Yang-Yang Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include egalitarianism, theories of justice, and democratic theory. Her dissertation project explores the relationship between compassion and democracy by engaging with deliberative democratic theory, care ethics, and Buddhist and Confucian thought. She holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago with a concentration in Political Theory, and a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University.
PhD Candidate, Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), University of Groningen Yuru Guan is a Ph.D. candidate at Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES) at the University of Groningen. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degree at North China Electric Power University in China. She has a keen interest in carbon emission accounting from different perspectives and environmental inequality assessment. She has already co-authored 18 peer-reviewed journal articles in international, high-impact journals, such as Nature Energy, Earth's Future, Applied Energy, and Science Bulletin. Two of her first-authored papers are ESI highly cited papers and one is ESI hot paper.
Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights, University of Alberta Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Her recent books include (with Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel) Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (University of Toronto Press, 2023), and (with Abigail B. Bakan) Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race (Bloomsbury/IB Tauris, 2020). She is also co-editor (with Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay) of Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the Twenty-First Century? (Routledge, 2023). She was elected President of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association in 2022.
Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Monash University Yolande is Professor of Digital Technology and Society in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab where she leads the Energy Futures program. Yolande is also Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Faculty of IT, and Associate Director (Consumers) at the Monash Energy Institute. Professional membership: The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Media experience: smart homes, home automation, energy consumption (social issues), heatwaves, air conditioning, gender and technology, AI, homes
