Zhuofan Li

Zhuofan Li is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Arizona in 2024. His current research helps us understand digital society and its relationship with capitalism, knowledge, and power through an interesting paradox called corporate open science. He has also studied the moralized market for surveillance technology, the role of temporality in motivating and stratifying action in cancer clinics, and the promises and perils of machine learning for collecting and analyzing network, text, visual, and geospatial data, among others.