ABOUT ME

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Zekai Lu(陆泽凯) is a social science researcher who is currently a fast-tracking PhD student in the Department of Sociology at McGill University(supervised by Eran Shor). His areas of interest include medical sociology, social psychology and computational sociology.Zekai hopes to focus on the field of medical sociology in his graduate research. Zekai has already published many works on some English and Chinese journal.

Zekai’s favourite poem is by Du Fu.This poem depicts a magnificent scene in the transition zone between the Tibetan plateau and the Chengdu plain

窗含西岭千秋雪，门泊东吴万里船。

The window frames the western peaks with snow of thousand years, The door beholds the eastern stream with ships of myriad tiers.

Research Interest

Sociology: Medical sociology; Computational sociology; Media Sociology and Gender sociology.

Psychology: Social Psychology(substance use disorder); Behavioral Psychology and Criminal Psychology(drug-related crime).

Skill

Methodology: Traditional metrology(including Mixed linear models, Structural equation modelling, LCA/LPA and so on); Big data processing; Social network analysis; Machine learning(including Deep learning, and Natural Language Processing); Causal inference (Rubin Counterfactual Framework and Pearl’s DAG); Meta-analysis

Statistics Programming Language: (skilled), (skilled), Stata(skilled), MATLAB, Netlogo, and Mplus(skilled).

Other Programming Language: .

PUBLICATIONS1

Wordcloud of my research

In chronological order

Published

  1. Zekai Lu, Ge Tang, and Samuelle Fortin. 2024. “Explaining Child Maltreatment and Aggression among Chinese Drug User: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Drug Craving and Impulsivity.” Child Abuse & Neglect 154:106954. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106954. (SSCI JCRQ1 TOP JOURNAL IN SOCIAL WORK)
  2. Zekai Lu, Rongqin Yuan, Zelin Liu, and Hong Lu. 2024. “Exploring the Symptom Patterns of Depression and Anxiety among Teachers during COVID-19: A Latent Profile Analysis.” Psychological Trauma: Theory Research Practice and Policy. doi:10.1037/tra0001686. (SSCI JCRQ1 APA JOURNAL)
  3. Zekai Lu, Chuyin Xie, Nian Liu, Ying Xie, and Hong Lu. 2022. “Can We Predict Aggression?—Determining the Predictors of Aggression among Individuals with Substance Use Disorder in China Undergoing Enforced Detoxification through Machine Learning.” Journal of Affective Disorders. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2022.10.005. (SSCI JCRQ1)
  4. Zekai Lu, Lingxi Peng, Xuan Liu, Lizhi Zhan, Haohuai Liu, and Rong Hu. 2022. “The Systematic Traceability and Analysis of COVID-19.”2 Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis 23(10):2383–93. link (SCI JCRQ2)
  5. Liu Nian, Zekai Lu*, and Xie Ying. “Application of the R Package ProcessR to Implement Various Types of Intermediary Models.” China Health Statistics. (CHINESE CSCD3)
  6. Liu Nian, Zekai Lu, and Ying Xie. 2022. “Tracking Study on the Relapse and Aftercare Effect of Drug Patients Released From a Compulsory Isolated Detoxification Center.” Frontiers in Psychiatry 12 (January): 699074. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.699074. (SSCI JCRQ1)
  7. Xu Junhui, Zekai Lu, and Ying Xie. 2021. “Loan Default Prediction of Chinese P2P Market: A Machine Learning Methodology.” Scientific Reports 11 (September): 18759. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-98267-2. (SCI JCRQ1)
  8. Liu Nian, Zekai Lu, and Ying Xie. 2021. “Factors Affecting the Public Acceptance of Extramarital Sex in China.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (11): 5767. doi:10.3390/ijerph18115767.
  9. Zekai Lu and Xie Ying. 2021. “A Study of Public Opinion Texts on the “Sino-US Diplomatic Storm” in Microblogs: A Word Vector Sentiment Analysis Based on R Language.” Media Watch no. 02:54-61. doi:10.19480/j.cnki.cmgc.2021.02.007. (CHINESE CSSCI4)
  10. Zekai Lu, Yaya Wang, and Ying Xie. “A Random Forest-based Approach to Poverty Alleviation Identification.” China Market. 2021:22-23+36. doi:10.13939/j.cnki.zgsc.2021.25.022. (CHINESE)

Accepted

  1. Zekai Lu, Nian Liu, Ying Xie, and Junhui Xu. “Time Series Analysis and Forecasting of China’s Energy Production during Covid-19: Statistical Models vs Machine Learning Models.” Energies. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1074872/v3. (SSCI JCRQ3)

Under Review

  1. Zekai Lu. “Can Belonging Affect Health? Ethnic Belonging and Chronic Disease Patterns in Canadian Indigenous Populations.” Preventive Medicine.
  2. Zekai Lu. “Edentulism Has No Direct Causal Relationship with Depression among Middle‐Aged and Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study Using Fixed-Effects Models.” Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.

Prepare to Submit

  1. Rethinking the Measurement of Adverse Childhood Experiences — A Causal Tree-based Approach.
  2. Exemplar of the New Century? - Understanding China’s Drug Policy in the 21st Century through Critical Discourse Analysis.
  3. Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) in Chinese Primary and Secondary School Teachers.

Conference Works

EXPERIENCE

Work appointment

  1. 2023 – McGill University Research Assistant.

  2. 2021 – 2023 Guangzhou University Research Assistant, Center for Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Psychology), School of Education

  3. 2019 – 2022 Guangzhou University Research Assistant, Department of Sociology

Membership

Reviewers’ appointment

  1. Journal of Affective Disorders (SSCI JCRQ1 PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHIATRY)
  2. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (SSCI JCRQ1 PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHIATRY APA)
  3. Frontiers in Public Health (SSCI JCRQ1 PUBLIC HEALTH)
  4. PLOS ONE (SCI JCRQ1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY)
  5. Annals of Operation Research (SCI JCRQ2 OPERATION)

Teaching experience

  1. Winter Term 2024 Teaching Assistant for SOCI 309 Health and Illness (Prof. Quesnel-Vallee, McGill University).

  2. Fall Term 2023 Teaching Assistant for SOCI 235 Technology and Society (Mr. Drago, McGill University).

  3. Fall Term 2020-2021 Teaching assistant of Quantitative Analysis Method (Prof. Ying Xie, Guangzhou University)

  4. Fall Term 2020-2021 Teaching assistant of Application Of Statistical Software In Social Sciences (Dr. Nian Liu, Guangzhou University)

  5. Spring Term 2020-2021 Teaching assistant of Application of Statistic Software (Dr. Nian Liu, Guangzhou University)

internship experience

  1. 2022/05-2022/07 Intermediate Social Work Internship in Guangzhou Shanshan Social Service Centre

  2. 2022/09-2022/11 Psychological Trainers Internship in Guangzhou Clear Sky Psychological Service

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Awards and Honors

  1. 2023 Outstanding graduate thesis in Guangzhou University

  2. 2022 First prize for thesis in First Chinese Political Science Undergraduate Symposium

  3. 2021 First-class scholarship of Guangzhou University

  4. 2021 Outstanding student at Guangzhou University

  5. 2021 Excellent academic scale of Guangzhou University

  6. 2021 The second prize of the College Challenge Cup of Guangzhou University

  7. 2020 Third-class scholarship of Guangzhou University

Grants and Fellowships

  1. 2023 Western Graduate Research Scholarship ($16,912 per year, decline the offer)
  2. 2023 Graduate entrance scholarship of UBC ($5000, decline the offer)
  3. 2020–21 Provincial scientific research projects for college students (¥7000)
  4. 2020–21 College Challenge Cup of Guangzhou University (¥2500)

  1. *, Corresponding author. Papers list In chronological order ↩︎

  2. Some of my papers are subscription based. I’m posting the format the articles in Paper Section. ↩︎

  3. Chinese Science Citation Database ↩︎

  4. Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index(CSSCI), Considered to be the most authoritative index of Chinese social science journals. ↩︎