The Institute for Social Science Methodology (ISSM) 2025 will be held from July 8 to July 25, 2025, in Taipei. The ISSM provides a unique opportunity for graduate students and junior faculty to receive quantitative training and to meet distinguished methodologists.
This year we are focuses on the theme of “Data Science.” We are honored to invite internationally renowned scholars including TY Wang (Illinois State University), YS Sung (University of North Texas), Karl Ho (School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas), KL Ma (University of California, Davis), Xiang Zhou (Harvard University), Amy Liu (University of Texas at Austin), Wayne Lee (Lehigh University), and Adeline Lo (University of Wisconsin-Madison), along with leading domestic scholars in quantitative social science to deliver lectures. In addition to the thematic courses, this year we also feature foundational courses offered in previous years, such as categorial data analysis, causal inference, research design.
There are two main parts in the ISSM course: basic courses and theme courses. The main theme of this year is Data Science. The total class are 98 hours (17 days), including lectures, tutorials, practical and presentations.
For more information about the course, please visit the ISSM website: http://issm.com.tw/.
Here are the lecturers of the 2025 ISSM (In alphabetical order by English surname):
· Herbert Chang (Quantitative Social Science/Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College)
· Chih-Sheng Hsieh (Department of Economics, National Taiwan University)
· Hsieh, Ji-Lung (Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University)
· Karl Ho (School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas)
· Han-Wei Ho (Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica/Empirical Legal Research Data Center, Academia Sinica)
· Chi Huang (Department of Political Science and Election Study Center, National Chengchi University)
· Hsuan-Wei Lee (Department of Community and Population Health, Lehigh University)
· Ming-Jen Lin (Department of Economics, National Taiwan University)
· Tse-min Lin (Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin)
· Amy Liu (Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin)
· Adeline Lo (Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
· Kwan-Liu Ma (Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis)
· Yu-Hsien Sung (Department of Political Science, University of North-Texas)
· Shu-An Tsai (Department of Political Science, Tunghai University)
· T. Y. Wang (Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University)
· Yi-Ting Wang (Department of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University)
· Jui-Chung Yang (Department of Economics, National Taiwan University)
· Ko-Hua Yap (Department of Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University)
· Xiang Zhou (Department of Sociology, Harvard University)
Contact: Ying Ru Lu.
Tel: (02) 8170-5125 #6740
E-mail: issm@gate.sinica.edu.tw; issm.taiwan@gmail.com
