Luyi Jian

Lead Statistical Consultant

For a 3-year research project, “Optimizing supervision and service strategies to reduce reoffending: Accounting for risks, strengths, and developmental differences”, funded by the National Institute of Justice

Principle Investigator: Gina Vincent, Ph.D.

University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shrewsbury, MA

▪ Consulted on data transformations for the project, which has partnered with juvenile justice agencies in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin to track state-wide data on services, supervision, risk assessment, and recidivism for a large sample of justice-involved youth (N>40,000)

▪ Conducted statistical analyses critical to achieving study aims. Specifically, applied conventional survival analysis and survival analysis integrated with inverse probability of treatment weighted (IPTW) and SuperLearner (a machine learning method) to examine the predictivepower of risk vs. protective factors, risk-reduction vs. strengths-based services on reoffending, and the moderating effects of age

Trainee Fellow

2023- Present

Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System (CRELS) training program,funded by the National Science FoundationBerkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), UC Berkeley, CA

▪ Intensive training in data science knowledge and large data integration and analysis skills through coursework (e.g., computational social science series, causal inference series, data engineering, social and ethical implications of AI), weekly workshops, and research training sessions

▪ Working on the California Law Enforcement Accountability Network (CLEAN) project that aims to identify points of intervention in policing institutions and practices to reduce police misconduct and excessive use of force, which fall disproportionately on minority groups and the poor

Behavioral Interventions Scholar

August 2022- Present

Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Department of Health &

Human Services (HHS), United States

▪ Admitted to the Behavioral Interventions Scholars program, which offers federal awards for dissertations that apply behavioral science to conduct rigorous, policy-relevant research on issues facing low-income and vulnerable families

▪ Conducting dissertation research, “How does prosocial identity protect juveniles from reoffending? Testing core components of a conceptual model for identity-based intervention”, to explore an innovative strength-based intervention approach for justice-involved youth

Graduate Student Researcher

2021 - present

Risk Resilience Research Lab, UC Berkeley, CA

▪ Worked as the leading researcher in two projects funded by the Arnold Ventures that tested the impact of juvenile justice and criminal justice fees and financial sanctions on probation outcomes and families’ financial health outcomes

▪ Initiated and refined data extraction from the Alameda County Probation Department (ACPD), Alameda County Central Collections (ACCC), and California Department of Justice (DOJ) through formal paperwork and intensive oral and written communications

▪ Collaborated with California Policy Lab (CPL) to develop R and SAS scripts for hashing and matching ACPD data with large-scale consumer credit panel data

▪ Cleaned and merged complex administrative data received from ACPD, ACCC, DOJ, and CPL. Particularly, used R and SQL to conduct comprehensive hashed matching between the finalized samples and the consumer credit panel data (with a total of 460 million records) based on personal identifiers and address information, to obtain participants’ quarterly credit scores over 2.5 years

▪ Conducted advanced statistical analyses including Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) incorporating SuperLearner and Marginal Structural Modeling (MSM), to achieve study aims

▪ Visualized findings, drafted working papers, manuscripts, and one of the final reports to the funder

MSW Concentration Practicum

2018-2019

Clark-Fox Family Foundation, St Louis, MO, USA

• Assisted in strategic planning for the Mass Incarceration Community Education Initiative
• Prepared and attended presentations to communities; conducted data analysis to evaluate audience response and wrote monthly reports
• Interviewed leaders of organizations that serve justice-involved youth and adults

MSW Foundation Practicum

2018

St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center, St Louis, MO, USA

• Developed and implemented programs for youth in the detention center
• Collaborated with unit supervisors and social workers to discuss the detention center's services and practices
• Observed court hearings in the Family Court–Juvenile Division

Police Officer

2007-2017 

Shanghai Public Security Bureau, Shanghai, China

• Worked in departments including the Police Station, Cyber Security, Crime Investigation, Command Center, and Publicity
• Gained a deep understanding of the comprehensive duties and crime prevention/intervention efforts of the local law enforcement through working in both front-line and administrative positions

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Jian, L., Pettus-Davis, C., & Kohl, P. L. (2022). Young fathers in jail: Associations between father experiences, father-child relationships and community stability. Victims & Offenders, 17(4), 571–596. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2021.1958399

Zhao, Y., Liu, M., Bo, S., & Jian, L. (2010). A study on crime distance of serial burglary cases. Journal of Chinese People’s Public Security University (Social Science Edition), 26(2), 143–149.

Jian, L., & Li, M. (2007). Developmental characteristics of adolescence-limited antisocial behavior. Issues on Juvenile Crimes and Delinquency, 26(5), 11–14. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1006-1509.2007.05.003

Jian, L. (2006). Psychological analysis of superstitious behaviors. Science of Social Psychology, 21(2), 120–122.

Jian, L. (2006). Methods of criminal profiling: Comparative analysis of CSA and BEA. Journal of Henan Judicial Police Vocational College, 4(4), 38–41.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Rossmo, K. (2007). Geographic Profiling (Li, M., Jian, L., Ren, Y., & Wang, Z. Trans.). People’s Public Security University of China Press (Original work published 2000; pp. 4–90, 262–273).

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Jian, L., & Skeem, J. Getting traction on Positive Youth Justice: Prosocial identity as a promising target for intervention (Psychology, Public Policy, and Law)

MANUSCRIPTS IN SUBMISSION

Skeem, J., Jian, L., & Kennealy, P. Do “strengths” protect serious juvenile offenders against institutional infractions? (Law and Human Behavior)

Jian, L., Chambers, J., Montoya, L. & Skeem, J. Effect of juvenile justice financial sanctions and fees on recidivism (Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice)

MANUSCRIPTS IN PLANNING (Data Analyses Completed)

Jian, L., & Skeem, J. Effect of criminal justice fee repeal on probationers’ financial burden and recidivism

Jian, L., Skeem, J., Vincent, G. Other-oriented prosocial or conventional? Conceptualizing prosocial identity for justice-involved youth

NATIONAL

2022-2024 Behavioral Interventions Scholars Grant ($50,000)

Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS), United States

UNIVERSITY-WIDE

2023-2024 Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System (CRELS) Fellowship

($34,000)

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), UC Berkeley

2023-2024 Doctoral Completion Fellowship ($30,000)

Graduate Division, UC Berkeley

2023 Summer Graduate Fellowship ($4,500)

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

2023 Dean's Conference Travel Award ($3,100)

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

2023 Conference Travel Grant ($900)

Graduate Division, UC Berkeley

2022-2023 Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Fellowship ($2,000)

Law School, UC Berkeley

2022 Summer Graduate Fellowship ($5,000)

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

2021 Summer Graduate Fellowship ($5,000)

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

2020 Summer Graduate Fellowship ($3,500)

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

2019-2022 Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship ($28,000/year + partial tuition)

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

2017 Brown School Scholarship ($25,000 tuition reduction)

Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis 

2004-2007 University Fellowship (¥2,700/year + full tuition)

Graduate Division, People’s Public Security University of China

2005 Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship (¥500)

Graduate Division, People’s Public Security University of China

2004 Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship (¥500)

Graduate Division, People’s Public Security University of China

2002 Excellent Undergraduate Student Scholarship (¥1,200)

School of Economics and Management, Tongji University

2001 Sony Scholarship (¥3,400)

Sony Scholarship Committee of Colleges and Universities in Shanghai

2000 Excellent Undergraduate Student Scholarship (¥2,800)

School of Economics and Management, Tongji University

2014 Award for Police Public Relations

Shanghai Public Security Bureau

2012 Annual Award for Outstanding Individuals

Shanghai Public Security Bureau

2011 Annual Award for Outstanding Individuals

Shanghai Public Security Bureau

2023 -  “Conceptualizing prosocial identity for justice-involved youth”. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (accepted for paper presentation, in the thematic panel “Implementing positive youth justice in probation: Examination of protective factors by race and age”).

2023 -  “Effect of juvenile justice financial sanctions and fee repeal on families’ financial burden and youth’s recidivism.” American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Philadelphia, PA (Paper presentation).

2023 -  “Effect of juvenile justice financial sanctions and fee repeal on recidivism.” Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, virtually to Phoenix, IN (Poster presentation). 

2022 -  “How does prosocial identity protect justice-involved youth from reoffending?” Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Seminar, Berkeley, CA.

2021 -  “Training effects of In Your Corner - Opioid-Affected Youth Initiative.” Presented to In Your Corner Task Force, Alameda County Probation Department, CA.

2021 - Doctoral student trainee at the 7th Annual UC Consortium on Adolescence Summer Institute, virtually to Los Angeles, CA.

2020 -  Doctoral student trainee at the 6th Annual UC Consortium on Adolescence Summer Institute, virtually to Los Angeles, CA.

2019 - Doctoral student trainee at the 5th Annual UC Consortium on Adolescence Summer Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

2019  - “Characteristics of young fathers in jail: Associations with father-child relationship and recidivism”. Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (Paper presentation).

2020-2023

Graduate Student Instructor/Teaching Assistant

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Introduction to Social Welfare Policy (SW112)

Spring 2023

▪ In-person course for undergraduate students

▪ Taught two discussion sections weekly, proctored exams, gradedmid-term and final papers, and held office hours

▪ Class size: 48 students

Social Science & Crime Prevention Policy (PP189/SW181)

Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2022

▪ In person and/or online courses for upper-level undergraduate students from diverse majors

▪ Assisted in developing class materials for facilitated discussions and group activities, guided final projects, graded mid-term and final papers, and held office hours

▪ Class size: 90 students in average

2020-2022

GiGS (Getting into Graduate School program) Mentor

Office for Graduate Diversity, UC Berkeley

▪ Worked with historically underrepresented, first-generation, transfer, and reentry UC Berkeley students to support their application for and orientation to graduate schools

Mandarin (native), English (fluent)