Jia Xue

Jia Xue is an Assistant Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, jointly appointed with the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. She completed her research fellowship at the JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. from the School of Social Policy & Practice, a M.A. in Statistics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a law degree from Tsinghua University Law School (China) earned in 2011.

Jia is the founding director of the Artificial Intelligence for Justice lab and is affiliated with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Her research is focused on applying computational and AI approaches to examine various aspects of intimate partner violence and sexual assault, addressing biases in AI, and studying rape myth culture and school bullying in Chinese societies.

Jia’s research has been published in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Family Violence, Violence against Women, Child Abuse & Neglect, American Journal of Public Health, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and Children and Youth Services Review. She has received funding for her research from the Connaught New Researcher Award, Richard B. Splane Applied Social Policy and Social Innovation Fund Faculty Research Grant, SSHRC Insight Development Grant, and CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund.

• Bolun Zhang