Jat Laam Yiu

CV

Education

CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D. in Sociology, 2022 - Present

  • Research focus: International Migration; Women, Work, and Family
  • Supervisor: Prof. Philip Kasinitz

NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, MPA in Public Policy Analysis, 2018 - 2020

China Foreign Affairs University, LL.B., 2013 - 2017

Experience

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Baruch College, City University of New York

Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 (*Served as Graduate Teaching Fellow), Spring 2025 - Present

  • Instructor of record: SOC 1005 Introductory Sociology
  • Designed course materials, assignments, and assessment structure

Research Fellow, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR)

2024 – Present

  • Assisted faculty research projects on demographic and racial inequality
  • Contributed to data preparation, literature review, and research support tasks
  • Completed the Advanced Certificate in Demography, CUNY Graduate Center (Feb 2024)

Skills

  • Quantitative: Regression, panel and multilevel modeling, imputation, survey weighting (ACS/IPUMS/HRS/LIS), data visualization (ggplot, matplotlib)
  • Qualitative: In-depth interviewing, thematic coding, discourse and content analysis (NVivo, Atlas.ti)
  • Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, R, Stata, Python

Awards & Honors

  • CIDR Three-Year Demography Fellowship ($31,141 per year), AYs 2024–2027
  • CIDR Summer Research Assistantship Scholarship ($5,000), 2024
  • China at CUNY Initiative Research Assistant Fellowship ($8,500), 2023
  • CIDR Supplementary Fellowship ($5,000), 2023