Director of Social Survey Center of East China Normal University.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, East China Normal University.
Mainly focuses on the teaching, researching and application of sociological methodology, questionnaire design and analysis, statistical analysis software IBM SPSS Statistics and data mining software IBM SPSS Modeler.
Worked in Gallup for five years as a part-time researcher.
Participated in nearly 60 social surveys and market research projects, and was responsible for data collection, analysis and survey reports writing on nearly 30 survey projects.
Have carried out the votes prediction tests of presidential candidates in the last seven US presidential elections by using the holographic investigation method that he came up with. The maximum error between the seven predictions and the actual vote is 2.45 percentage points, in which the error of the 2016 US presidential election prediction results is just 0.8 percentage points. Seven tests were conducted during the seven presidential elections from 1992 to 2016.
Since 2012, have released Chinese University Admission Scores Ranking for 6 years.