Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas

Dr. Zining Yang is Senior Manager atSouthern California Edison. She also works as Adjunct Professor atCalifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and AssociateDirector at the TransResearch Consortium. She sits on the Board ofthe Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (CSSSA)and serves as Scientific Advisory Board Member for Human Factorsand Simulations. She received her Ph.D. in Computational andApplied Mathematics and Political Economy from Claremont GraduateUniversity. Her research interests include modeling and simulation,complex adaptive systems, agent-based models, network analysis, data analytics, andmachine learning. She has published numerous times in thefields of computer science, economics, public policy, and politicalscience. She has been identified as Outstanding Researcher by thegovernment, worked on a National Science Foundation-sponsoredproject, and won multiple awards from various organizations,including the Ministry of Education ofthe People's Republic ofChina, International Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling andPrediction, and the International Institute of Informatics andSystemics.

Understanding Emergence Through Agent-Based Computation.- Agent-based foraging or When imperfect unbiased knowledge yields systematic deviation from ideally rational outcomes.- The differential 'wisdom of crowds': Using ChatGPT and the Twitter API to interrogate entire cultures.- Statistical Discrimination with Affirmative Action using Agent-based Modeling.