Qianyi (Sinyee) Lu

Sinyee Lu is a fifth-year PhD student from Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds a B.A. in Economics (Jinan University, Guangzhou) and an M.A. in Sociology (Renmin University of China, Beijing). She is the elected Student Representative for the ASA Section on Population (2025-2027) and previously served as the section’s newsletter coordinator (2023–2025). In summer 2025, she was an intern at the United Nations Population Division, contributing to the next edition of World Population Prospects. 

Her research examines the future of work and occupational inequality in the United States, with projects on precarious employment, non-standard scheduling and hours, and the rise of remote/hybrid work. She studies downstream consequences for economic stability and hardships, physical health and mental well-being, time use, and social interaction, especially their impacts on socio-economically disadvantaged subgroups. Empirically, she works with large-scale U.S. surveys (e.g., CPS, ATUS, HPS), cross-national surveys (e.g., WVS), census, and aggregate data (e.g., SIGI). Methodologically, she uses longitudinal and panel models, sequence analysis, cohort-based demographic estimation and projections, text-as-data, and survey experiments. In collaborative work, she also studies health disparities, immigrant integration and assimilation, family and marriage, both in East Asian and global contexts.