CSSS Student Seminar, Autumn 2025

This academic year, CSSS is hosting a quarterly Student Seminar Series, giving graduate students the opportunity to present their research to a group of their peers. The Autumn seminar was held on Thursday, November 20, organized by CSSS Graduate Student Representative Yijie Wang. The session featured:  
 
Adam Visokay, Sociology - TopicBench: Evaluating LLMs as Latent-Topic-Labelers 

Ishaan Ambrish, Psychology – Verb Language Mixing Strategies in Early Childhood 

Chi-Ying Huang, Earth and Space Sciences – Evaluating the relationship of environmental and social vulnerability in Houston and New Orleans 

Yale Quan, Measurement and Statistics – Advancing Intersectional DIF Detection using Zero Shot Transfer Learning and Neural Networks 

Ramses Llobet, Political Science – Addressing Measurement Error Bias in Grouped Continuous Data for Causal Inferences 

Stay tuned for student seminar announcements in the Winter and Spring quarters, 2026.  

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