Yao Sun is a predoctoral fellow working with Professor Emma Zang at the Computational Aging, Family, and Evidence Lab. His research focuses on developing and validating neighborhood-level measures using survey and multimodal data, as well as applying advanced computational methods to study human perceptions and socioeconomic disparities. Previously, he worked as a research associate at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. He holds an M.S. in Survey and Data Science from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and a B.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.