Siyan Cheng
Chicago,IL
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervised Researcher
Department Of Anthropology, University of Chicago
10.2024 - Current
- Thesis Title: Family Infra-politics, bureaucracy, and biopower in China
- Conducted 13 semi-structured interviews with family planning specialists, parents who attempted illegitimate births under the One-Child Policy.
- Conducted 5 months of fieldwork, focused on social relations, images, and other-than-human ethnography
- Produced 25 pages of analytical ethnography.
UX Researcher
MAPSS, University of Chicago
01.2025 - 04.2025
- Worked with 11 users of the online box office of the Lyric Opera Chicago.
- Participated in UX research workshops to conduct thematic analysis.
- Conducted moderated usability tests and semi-structured interviews.
- Proposed a 40-slide report on diminishing barriers on the ticket reservation route.
Language Lecturer
Newborn Education Co.
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Worked with a team of 9 educators to provide academic English language lectures for 19 international high school students across Zhejiang Province
- Taught academic writing course to 9 students (For daily coursework, essay assignments, TOEFL, and IELTS)
Social Work Intern
Tong Yue Social Work Service Centre
01.2024 - 02.2024
- Led a team of 5 social work interns to provide language tutoring services for 42 foreign residents in Yiwu City
- Created and executed a survey involving 32 questions, reaching out to 150 foreign residents in Yiwu; Found that 78% of respondents indicated an economic motivation rather than a cultural one for learning Mandarin
- Contributed to tailoring the textbook to align with market-oriented and trading business needs
Research Assistant
Sociology Department, Zhejiang University
09.2023 - 11.2023
- Project title: Mongolian Herders’ Adaptation to Modernism
- Conducted 3-week fieldwork with pastoral Mongolian families.
- Coordinating and managing 5 student research assistants.
- Collected 8 interview recordings and produced 3 fieldwork reports.
- Analyzed why and how pastoralists immigrate to cities and relevant changing dynamics of pastoral mobility.
Student Researcher
Political Science Department, Zhejiang University
06.2022 - 03.2023
- Project Title: The Image of Female Labour in the 'First-Five-Year Plan'
- Led a team of 3 student researchers to collect and analyze data.
- Collected 237 letters, posters, photographs, and other historical materials from 1953-1957.
- Facilitated a 29 page analysis of official propaganda discourse versus the actual experiences of women workers in the context of national industrialization in China.
Education
Master of Arts in Social Anthropology - Anthropology
University of Chicago
IL03.2025
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
Zhejiang University
07.2024
Research and Management Experience
Research Assistant, 09/2023 to 11/2023
Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University - Xilingol, China
- Project Title: The Image of Female Labour in the 'First-Five-Year Plan'
- Led a team of 3 student researchers to collect and analyze data.
- Collected 237 letters, posters, photographs, and other historical materials from 1953-1957.
- Facilitated a 29 page analysis of official propaganda discourse versus the actual experiences of women workers in the context of national industrialization in China.
Student Researcher, 06/2022 to 04/2023
Department of Political Science, Zhejiang University - Hangzhou, China
- Project Title: The Image of Female Labour in the 'First-Five-Year Plan'
- Led a team of 3 student researchers to collect and analyze data.
- Collected 237 letters, posters, photographs, and other historical materials from 1953-1957.
- Facilitated a 29 page analysis of official propaganda discourse versus the actual experiences of women workers in the context of national industrialization in China.
Skills
Python, R, UX Research, Ethnography, Interview, Qualitative Analysis
Timeline
UX Researcher
MAPSS, University of Chicago
01.2025 - 04.2025
Supervised Researcher
Department Of Anthropology, University of Chicago
10.2024 - Current
Language Lecturer
Newborn Education Co.
06.2024 - 08.2024
Social Work Intern
Tong Yue Social Work Service Centre
01.2024 - 02.2024
Research Assistant
Sociology Department, Zhejiang University
09.2023 - 11.2023
Student Researcher
Political Science Department, Zhejiang University
06.2022 - 03.2023
Master of Arts in Social Anthropology - Anthropology
University of Chicago
Bachelor of Science - Political Science
Zhejiang University
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