Work

Education

2021-2024
Northwestern University BA in American Studies with Honors
2024-
Stanford University PhD in Communication

Presentations

Talks

  • Zou, E. Arbitrating study of online community identity Community Data Science Workshop (Evanston, IL, USA). Jan. 2026.
  • Zou, E. Non-standard language as political identity boundaries Stanford Computational Lin- guistics Reading Group (Stanford, CA, USA). Jan. 2026.
  • Pan, J. & Zou, E. Flow and Speed of International Information via Livestreams Stanford Research Computing Fellow Symposium (Stanford, CA, USA). Sept. 2025.

Posters

  • (Accepted) Pan, J. & Zou. E. Affect without Party: Affective Polarization in Anonymous Political Discussions. Text as Data Conference (Berkeley, CA). Oct 5. 2026
  • Zou, Emily. How do people use words without definitions? Stanford Data Science Conference (Stanford, CA, USA). Apr. 2025.
  • Zou, Emily & Pan, J. What the "mask" did you call me?": How people recognize unrecognized words Women in Data Science Conference (Stanford, CA, USA). Mar. 2025.
  • Zou, Emily, Hwang, S., Shaw, A. & TeBlunthuis, N. (Don’t) Ignore Your Haters: Antagonis- tic Mutualism in Online Communities Lambert Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Evanston, IL, USA). Oct. 2022.

Teaching

  • Autumn Quarter 2025. Assistant Instructor, Communication Research Methods (COMM 106/206), Stanford