Zhang Yang, currently a Lecturer at the Department of National Security Studies‌, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China (RUC), holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa (UI) and served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Politics at Washington University in St. Louis (WU). His main research interests include artificial intelligence and national security, public opinion, social networks, and computational politics. He has led research projects funded by the Ministry of Education and the National Social Science Fund of China. His work has been published in academic journals such as Comparative Economic & Social Systems , Public Opinion Quarterly , Asian Politics & Policy , Journal of Chinese Political Science , and Japanese Journal of Political Science .