Dr. Weihua An is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Professor of Data and Decision Sciences at Emory University. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the East Asian Studies Program, the Goizueta Business School, and the Rollins School of Public Health. He currently serves as the Editor of Sociological Methodology and the Chair-Elect of the Methodology section of the American Sociological Association. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology and A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University. Dr. An's research advances theories and methodology in network analysis and causal inference with applications spanning 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 158K downloads in total. He 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 27 PhD dissertations and ten undergraduate honors theses.