Yiang Li is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is also a Predoctoral Trainee in NIA T32 Program in the Demography and Economics of Aging at the Center on Healthy Aging Behaviors and Longitudinal Investigations (CHABLIS) and a Student Affiliate at the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago.  

His research broadly focuses on: Social Demography, Health, Family, Neighborhood, and Statistical Methods. His current topics of investigation use statistical and/or computational techniques to 1) examine the contextual drivers that shape and perpetuate health differentials over the life course, especially the potential synergistic effects and interactions between neighborhood context, family dynamics, and social relationships; 2) uncover the early-life precursors and underlying social mechanisms behind stratified life trajectories, such as gendered expectations, network ties, and assortative mating, that contribute to the intricate tapestry of health and social stratification; 3) utilizing comparative approach to study variegated social processes along the life course led to diverging population health trajectories.