Research
My publications can also be found at my Google Scholar profile.
Publications
- Sun, Y. (2025). Scalable Estimation of Exponential Random Graph Models on Large Networks. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (pp. 721-724).
- Gawin, C., Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2025). Navigating Semantic Relations: Challenges for Language Models in Abstract Common-Sense Reasoning. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (pp. 971-975).
- Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2024). Backlash or Reinforcement? Donald Trump’s 2017 Inauguration and Shifting Climate Beliefs in the United States. NPJ Climate Action, 2024.
- Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2024). A study of firm-switching of inventors in Big Tech using public patent data. Book chapter in Social Network Analysis and Mining Applications in Healthcare and Anomaly Detection, 2024.
- Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2023). A structural study of Big Tech firm-switching of inventors in the post-recession era. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2023 (pp. 670-677).
- Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2023). DeepGraph: Multi-Cluster Interactive Visualization of Complex Networks in a Learned Representation Space. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2023 (pp. 427-430).
Under Review
- Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2025). Prevalence, Place and Price Analysis of Sex-Work in Southeast Asia: An Empirical Study of an Online Web Advertisement Platform. Under review at Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
- Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2025). Modeling Complex Associations between Climate Change Policies and Sociodemographic Factors using Conditional Inference Trees
- Patil, V., Bacha, S. V., Yamani, R., Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2024). Beyond the Star Rating: A Scalable Framework for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Using LLMs and Text Classification. Under review at Journal of Computational Social Science.
- Sun, Y., & Kejriwal, M. (2024). Structural modeling of campaign finance decisions in the US House of Representatives. Major Revision at NPJ Complexity.
Under Preparation
- Sun, Y., He, D., & Kejriwal, M. (2025). The Impact of Vulnerable Population Designation on CFPB Complaint Resolution: Evidence from Older Americans and Veterans.
Presentations
- Poster Presentation: “Modelling campaign finance data using network science to map structures and flows of influence”, Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium (SOCAMS), April 22, 2023.
- Oral Presentation: “DeepGraph: Multi-Cluster Interactive Visualization of Complex Networks in a Learned Representation Space”, Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Nov. 6, 2023.
- Oral Presentation: “A structural study of Big Tech firm-switching of inventors in the post-recession era”, Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Nov. 7, 2023.