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I'm a second-year Societal Computing Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), supervised by Professor Kathleen Carley. I'm broadly interested in sociolinguistics, cultural analytics, fan studies, and social network analysis. I'm particularly keen on exploring how online communities construct representations and identities for the things they talk about and themselves, across various contexts (news, conspiracies, fandom).

Before coming to CMU, I worked in information research at the Defence Science and Technology Agency in Singapore. I did my Master of Arts (Research) in Psychology at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) with a focus on computational social science, supervised by Professor Ringo Ho - my thesis analyzed the correlates of and gendered differences in repeat advice-seeking behavior on Reddit. In the even more distant past, I was a full-time research assistant in a lab situated between the Nanyang Business School and School of Social Sciences at NTU. I did my undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, where I majored in Psychology and was part of the University Scholars Programme.

You can view my CV here.

researchšŸ¦ˆ

publications//

 journals
  • Kang, B.N.Y., Ho, M.H.R., & Jaidka, K. (2025). User features and gendered patterns in repeat online advice-seeking behavior. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 5. [link]
  • Ho, M.H.R., Uy, M.A., Kang, B.N.Y., & Chan, K.Y. (2018). Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Entrepreneurial Efficacy and Alertness among Adolescent Youth. Frontiers in Education, 3. [link]
  • Chan, K.Y., Ho, M.H.R., Kennedy, J., Uy, M.A., Kang, B.N.Y., Chernyshenko, O., & Yu, T. (2017). Who Wants to Be an Intrapreneur? Relations between Employeesā€™ Entrepreneurial, Professional, and Leadership Career Motivations and Intrapreneurial Motivation in Organizations. Frontiers In Psychology, 8. [link]

chapters
  • Kang, B.N.Y. & Uy. M. (2020). An Examination of Entrepreneurial, Professional and Leadership (EPL) Career Aspirations among Adolescent Youth. Book chapter in Entrepreneurship-professionalism-leadership: A multidimensional framework for human capital and career development in the 21st century.

conference presentations//
  • [Talk | Abstract] Kang, B.N.Y. & Carley, K.M. (2025, October 23-26). A man by any other name: a mixed-methods study of recontextualization in fanfiction. Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) 2025, Online.
  • [Talk | Working paper] Kang, B.N.Y. & Carley, K.M. (2025, October 14-17). Investigating potential collective victimhood narratives in online communities and their constructions of threat. IDeaS Conference 2025, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • [Poster | Working paper] Kang, B.N.Y. (2024, September 18-20). Capturing Differences in Character Representations Between Communities: An Initial Study with Fandom. SBP-BRiMS 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. [link]
  • [Poster | Abstract] Kang, B.N.Y. & Ho, M.H.R (2019, July 17-20). Do I stay? Exploring factors related to repeated advice seeking on a relationship advice forum. IC2S2 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • [Talk | Full paper] Ho, M.H.R., Uy, M.A., Kang, B.N.Y., Tan, L.T.S., & Chan, K.Y. (2017, February 5-9). Impact of entrepreneurship training on entrepreneurial alertness and efficacy. The Australian Center for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE), Melbourne, Australia.

personalšŸŒŒ

I have a lot of room in my heart for fanfiction, fanart, and online communities in general! I'm also a long-time MMO player and am currently on FFXIV. I enjoy RPGs, roguelites, and the occasional rhythm game too. Outside of that, I do digital art (read: fanart) and have started dabbling in low-poly pixel and voxel art. I'm also learning a third language!
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10 Dec 2025 . the (almost) end of coursework/reflections

Itā€™s been about 1.5 years since Iā€™ve started this PhD, and as coursework draws to a close (just one course left), it feels like an apt time to write a more personal reflection on my journey so far. I had a less traditional route of getting here (both in field migration and the gaps between my undergraduate and now) so itā€™s been quite the journey of rediscovering myself again and again. //ā€a person, scattered in space and time, is no longer a woman but a series of events on which we can throw no light, a...


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