I am currently a PhD student in Professor Zeyu Lyu’s lab, where I study the intersection of computational social science, artificial intelligence, and social computing. Our group focuses on employing big data and computational methods in the areas of sociology, communication, and political science. Before joining the lab, I worked in the E-sports industry and the traditional media industry. I hold an MS degree from Beijing Jiaotong University and a BA degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
[Research Interest]
- Digital Platforms: Polarization, algorithmic control, and gig economy
- LLM for Social Science:Human–AI interaction, LLMs-driven social simulation
- Computational Humanities: Online discourse, narratives, and cultural evolution
🔥 Blog
📝 Publications
The Impact of Regional Economic Conditions on Bidding Strategies in Online Labor Markets
Zhichao Wang, Zeyu Lyu
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data. 2025
From ABM to GABM: How Generative AI is Reshaping Social Simulation
Zhichao Wang, Zeyu Lyu
Journal of Intelligent Society(Chinese Edition). 2025
Personalized recommendation system based on meta-learning for human-centric consumer services in gig economy
Yixuan Ma, Zhichao Wang, Mingcong Tang et al.
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 2023
MIG: Addressing the Cold-Start Problem in Task Recommendations Through Enhanced Meta Embeddings
Zhichao Wang, Yixuan Ma
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). 2024
Enhancing Task Matching in Online Labor Markets Using Multi-field Features Interaction and Meta-learning(Travel Grant)
Zhichao Wang, Yixuan Ma
In Proceedings of International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences. 2023
Online Labor Market Task Recommendation via Time-Weighted Diffusion Model
Shengwei Du, Zhichao Wang, Yixuan Ma
In Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Information Processing(ICONIP). 2024
💬 Presentation
The Role of Recommendation Algorithms in Shaping Opinion Polarization: Evidence from an LLM-Driven Social Media Simulation
Zhichao Wang, Zeyu Lyu
2025 Asian Network for Public Opinion Research-Asia‑Pacific Communication Alliance Annual Conference.2025.11.(Oral)
中国社会学年会.2025.07.(Oral)
Formation and Maintenance of Social Norms: Insights from Simulations Using Large Language Models
Zhichao Wang, Zeyu Lyu, Yoshimichi Sato, Hiroki Takikawa, Yu Odanaka
第79回日本数理社会学会.2025.08.(Poster)
中国计算社会学年会.2025.12.(Oral)
AI-augmented Synthetic Social Survey Data: Can Large Language Models Predict Public Opinion?(Travel Grant)
Zeyu Lyu, Zhichao Wang
第78回日本数理社会学会.2025.03.(Poster)
Evaluating Hiring Decision-Making in Large Language Models(Travel Grant)
Zhichao Wang, Zeyu Lyu
第78回日本数理社会学会.2025.03.(Poster)
Model-Agnostic Personalized Preference Estimator for Task Recommendation in Online Labor Markets: A Meta-Learning Approach
Yixuan Ma, Zhichao Wang
INFORMS Annual Meeting.2023.10.(Oral)
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2026.04-2028.03 Research Grant, JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC2).
- 2025.04–2028.03 Research Grant, WISE Program for AI Electronics.
- 2024.06 Beijing Jiaotong University Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award.
- 2023.07 Best Presentation Award in The 8th Doctoral Consortium of Sino-EU Doctoral School .
🏃 Activities
- 2025.06 The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Hong Kong).