Ashley Zhuge
Education Year GPA Description Location
Bryn Mawr College 2021 - 2026 3.98/4.0 Politcal Science; Computer Science, Mathematics Bryn Mawr, PA, USA.
University of Jordan 2023 - 2024 -- Studying and working in Arabic; Gap Year Jubeiha, Amman, Jordan.
ICPSR UMichigan 2023S; 2025S 4.0/4.0 Quantitative Methods Training; Six courses Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Focus

I enjoy different sciences! Care about:

algorithms' interactions with political outcomes, distribution of resources, and social well-being

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    Research Methods and Data Analysis, Fall 2024, Department of Political Science.

    Introduction to Econometrics, Fall 2025, Department of Economics.

    Data Structures; Introduction to Computing, Fall 2025, Department of Computer Science.

    Statistics and Probability, Multivariable Calculus, Time Series and Panel Data Analysis, Transition to Higher Math, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis

    Political Psychology, Comparative Political Parties, American Politics, Experimental Methods, Behavioral Economics

    Data Structures, Text Analysis, Data Science, Analysis of Algorithms, Theory of Computation

    Party Legacy Project, Prof. Aytug Sasmaz (Bryn Mawr College) variable coding.

    Tunisian Parliament Project, Prof. Aytug Sasmaz (Bryn Mawr College) database creation.

    Propaganda Project, Prof. Haifeng Huang (Ohio State University) content coding for machine learning.

    China Foreign Policy Project, Prof. Lior Sternfeld (Penn State University) archival research.

    Tutor and Member of the Leadership Team - Bryn Mawr Writing Center.

    Editor and Co-President - Tri-College Law Review.

    Studying and Working in Arabic - University of Jordan.

    Maria L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial Scholar, for the member with the highest GPA of the junior class - Bryn Mawr College.

    UPenn Fenjan Journal author; Bryn Mawr Nimbus Literary Magazine author.

    MIT Hackathon 2025 participant.

    In my senior thesis Part I, I investigated whether, overtime, nonpolitical characteristics such as social isolation and depressed feelings have increasing correlation with the likelihood to swing in presidential elections, controlling for other major factors, using statistical methods and survey data. I pooled the American National Election Survey-General Social Survey panel, conducted factor analysis to create measurements for social isolation and emotional vulnerability, and ran multinomial logit on the probability to swing.

    Next semester, for my senior thesis Part II, I will apply machine learning to investigate whether the percentage of entertainment, noninformative campaigns increased overtime, and whether, at least in the recent elections, those entertainment campaigns were met with greater success. In addition to classifying campaign messages on social media, I also plan to estimate the users' personality and emotional stability based on their homepage activities among those who interacted with the campaign posts.

    My favorite movie is Magic in the Moonlight by Woody Allen. My favorite short novels are A Child's Soul by Hermann Hesse and The Drowning by J.M Coetzee.

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