Research Interests
Political Violence (Civil Wars, Coups, Protests)
Conflict Management & Resolution
Political Economy of Violence
Leader Survival
Machine Learning
Education
M.S. Applied Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025.
M.A. Political Science, Ewha W. University, 2018.
B.A. English Language and Literature, Political Science, Ewha W. University, 2016.
Grants
APSA Conflict Processes Section Travel Award (2025)
Schroeder Fellowship (Cline Center) (2025) https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/8353/1521624143
Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (2024) https://ceaps.illinois.edu/research-overview/ceaps-graduate-student-travel-grant
Harrell Rodgers Travel Scholarship, the 81st Annual MPSA Conference (2024)
ACDIS (The Program in Arms Control & Domestic & International Security) Summer Fellowship (2022)
Recent Publications
Do Young Gong., Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell, Shuyuan Shen, and Yujeong Yang., Shuyuan Shen, and Yujeong Yang. (2024). "Money backfires: How Chinese investment fuels anti-China protests abroad." World Development, 178, 106566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106566 (Equal contribution)
Yang, Yujeong, Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell, Shuyuan Shen, and Do Young Gong. "Killing Protests with Kindness: Anti-China Protests and China’s Pub-
lic Diplomacy." International Studies Quarterly 67, no. 4 (2023): sqad087. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad087
KyungWoo Kim, Hyeon-Suk Lyu, and Do Young Gong. "Weeding out False Information in Disasters and Emergencies: Information Recipients’ Compe-
tency." International Review of Public Administration 25, no. 4 (2020): 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2020.1857056