Dr. Weihua An is Professor of Sociology & Quantitative Theory and Methods and associated faculty of the East Asian Studies Program, the Goizueta Business School, and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University and was a doctoral fellow and a postdoc fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. His research advances theories and methods for network analysis and causal inference with applications to studying inequality and social policy (e.g., immigration, education, housing, and redistributive policy), health (e.g., peer effects, networked interventions, perceived risk, and pandemic preparedness), and organizations. He has published widely in both methodological and substantive journals including Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Networks, Social Science Research, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods and Research, Journal of Statistical Software, and The R Journal and has edited several special issues at top journals. He is also an author of multiple statistical packages including "fglsnet," "LARF," "IUPS,"  and "keyplayer" in R and "DIDMatch" in Stata, which have received over 150K downloads in total. He is the Editor-Elect of Sociological Methodology and has served on the editorial boards of American Sociological Review, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, Sociological Methodology, and Sociological Methods and Research. He is a recipient of the Faculty Teaching Award from Emory Sociology and the Clifford Clogg Award from the American Sociological Association. He has advised over 20 dissertations and multiple honors theses.  (A profile article)