Yu Ching Cheng studies boundaries as value-based judgements and examines their role as meaning-making processes, their origins, mechanisms, and social consequences on both institutional and global levels. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersection of organization theory, cultural sociology, economic sociology, and science and technology. With an interdisciplinary approach and mixed methods, her main research focuses on trading boundary in financial market and uses text analysis to analyze how mediated evaluations of pre-clinical medical innovation reproduce information asymmetry in IPO market.Another project uses ethnography and in-depth interviews to analyze marital asymmetry of Chinese-speaking immigrants and how they draw marital boundaries along national, racial/ethnic, class, and gender lines.She holds a PhD in sociology from University at Albany, SUNY. Currently, she is International Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. You can reach her at [email protected].