Wan Yu

Wan Yu is a Research Assistant working with Dr. Kelly Rosinger. In addition to working with Dr. Rosinger, Wan has collaborated with Dr. David P. Baker at Penn State on multiple projects. The projects include analyzing a large bibliometric dataset that contains publications from the Web of Science’s Science Citation Index and analyzing Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data to examine the effect of the expansion of education on the generation gap in skill proficiencies across adults.

Wan received a Bachelor of Arts in Education and English Education from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea. Also, he received a Master of Education in Educational Policy and Educational Administration from Chung-Ang University. After graduating the master’s program in South Korea, Wan worked at the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) as a researcher who supported the Korean government’s university restructure evaluation policy. At KEDI, the tasks that he assumed included organizing events for evaluation and assisting experts’ evaluation activities.

He is currently a doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative and International Education. Wan’s research interests are world university rankings, research production of higher education institutions, domestic and international research collaboration networks, and the effects of policies on institutions’ research activities with quantitative analysis. The quantitative analyses that he conducts are hierarchical multiple regression, social network analysis, and growth curve modeling.