Zhaowen Guo is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Better Government Lab, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University. Her research explores how information and technology shape public opinion, political behavior, and government accountability through survey experiments, causal inference, and computational social science. Her dissertation, “Under Watchful Eyes: How Surveillance Technologies Collect and Disseminate Information for the State,” constructs a comprehensive database that examines China’s surveillance state—investigating the scale of government investments in surveillance technologies and public opinion on government surveillance. For more details on Guo’s work, visit her LinkedIn page.

Guo is a 2023 Data Fluencies Dissertation Research grantee.