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Agentic AI for Social Science Research is a four-day course on doing empirical social science by directing coding agents — building the system, not just chatting with a model. It moves from how a language model actually works, to the agent loop, to a hardened setup in Claude Code, to a full research pipeline. Read it here as a book: walk it section by section, search it, and copy any command straight out of the page.
Workshop outline
Day 1 (Aug 31): The Model — how an LLM works, and the prompt as a measurement instrument you validate.
Day 2 (Sep 1): Agents — the agent loop, tools, context, and the harness around a model — and how it breaks.
Day 3 (Sep 2): Claude Code & Codex — the hardened agent configured for real research, shown for both toolchains.
Day 4 (Sep 3): The Pipeline — Open Scholar Skills end to end, from idea to a verified, submission-ready paper.
Remarks
Maximum number of participants will be30.
Priority will be given to PhD students and early-career faculty.
About the Speaker
Dr. Yongjun Zhang is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, with affiliations in the AI Innovation Institute, the Center for the Study of Changing Systems of Power, and the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies. His work sits at the intersection of computational social science, AI, and sociology, with recent projects focused on how AI agents reshape the social organization of knowledge production. He is the developer of Open Scholar Skills, an open-source Claude Code plugin of specialist AI skills covering the end-toend social science research pipeline.
csspfs@cuhk.edu.hk
csspfs@cuhk.edu.hk
sociology@cuhk.edu.hk
sociology@cuhk.edu.hk
The Center for Population Research (CPR) of the Department of Sociology and the Gender Studies Programme are pleased to announce the upcoming mini-conference for the CSR Special Issue on Rural-Urban Inequality in Post-Reform China, to be held on Saturday, June 27, 2026 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
This event will bring together scholars to discuss emerging research on rural–urban inequality in post-reform China, featuring paper presentations, discussions, and keynote contributions.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Hong Kong Time)
(Registration opens at 8:30 a.m.)
Venue: Room 520, 5/F, Chen Ko Bun Building (陳國本樓), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Format: Onsite (in-person)
Programme Highlights
- Research presentations on rural–urban inequality in contemporary China
- Assigned discussants for each session
- Keynote presentations by distinguished scholars
The detailed programme is available here.
We warmly welcome your interest in this event and look forward to a stimulating academic exchange.
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