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Siqi Han is an assistant professor of sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also associated with CUHK’s computational social science cluster. Before joining CUHK, she was a postdoctoral research scholar at INCITE, Columbia University. She received her PhD in Sociology from The Ohio State University.
Her work mainly focuses on knowledge structure in college curriculum (Han et al 2026, Han et al 2023), field of study and school-to-work transition (Yao and Han 2024, Han 2021, Han et al 2016, Han 2016), and labor market skill returns (Han et al 2023, Fan and Han 2020). She addresses her research questions using both surveys and unstructured textual data with computationally intensive quantitative methods, especially machine learning and LLM-based data collection and processing. These projects appeared in PNAS, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science Research, European Sociological Review, Sociological Perspectives, Demographic Research, Socius, and other academic journals.
Currently, her work focuses on
- Evolvement of and economic returns to complex skill portfolios
- Cognitive and economic consequences of college curriculum
- Cross-national comparison in educational stratification
Please visit her personal website for more updated information
- Social Stratification
- Science, Technology, and Society
- Computational Social Science
| Year | Title of the Grant | Project Title |
| 2024-2027 | Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme | Principle Investigator, “Non-Specialized Skill Sets or Low-Status Credentials? Employer-Perceived Worker Skills and Horizontal Stratification in China and the U.S.” |
| 2024 | UGC Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education 2023-26 ( Co-PI: Kent Lee) | Principle Investigator, “Developing a Gender ‘Conscious’ AI-assisted Chatbot for Learning Social Statistics (Part I: Elementary Level)” |
| 2024 | CUHK Direct Grant, Social Science Faculty | Principle Investigator, “Shaping Perceptions: The Interplay of Education Systems, Parental Influence, and Teacher Impact on Students’ Perceived Intelligence Across Countries” |
| Journals |
| Han et al (forth) Conceptual Recombination as a Distinctive Feature of Liberal Arts Curriculum. In The Liberal Arts Advantage: Measuring the Deeper Value. Arum, Courant,and Flaster (eds). University of Chicago Press. |
| Han and Cai (2025) Perceived Gender Egalitarian Progress in the Labor Market and Overeducation in China, Japan, and Taiwan. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. |
| Han et al (2023) Interdisciplinary College Curriculum and Its Labor Market Implications. PNAS. |
| Han (2021) Reproducing the Working Class? Incongruence between the Valuation of Social-Emotional Skills in School and in the Labor Market. Sociological Perspectives. |
| Han et al (2016) Gendered transitions to adulthood by college field of study in the United States. Demographic Research. |
| Han (2016) Staying in STEM or changing course: Do natives and immigrants pursue the path of least resistance?. Social Science Research. |
- SOCI 5643 Doing Class in Everyday Life
- SOCI 3240 Social Studies of Science
- SOCI 3102 Social Networks and Social Capital
- SOCI 3002 Social Stratification
Department
- Library Resources and Information Technology Coordinator
- Member, Research Committee
- Member, Scholarships & Awards Committee
Faculty
- College Coordinator, New Asia College
last updated on 12 Nov 2025