Education
Duke University 2024–2026
M.A. in Economics GPA: 3.95
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
(SWUFE) 2020–2024
Bachelor of Economics GPA: 4.0 (Ranking:
1/30)
University of California, Berkeley Fall
2022
Exchange Program GPA: 3.9
Research Interest
Industrial Organization; Behavioral Economics; Game Theory; Health Economics
Relevant Courses
Math courses: Real Analysis (A+); Linear Algebra (A+); Probability (A+); Bayesian Statistics (A); Numerical Analysis (A); Multivariable Calculus I & II (A); Differential Equations (A-); Game Theory (A+); Stochastic Processes (A)
PhD courses: Core: Econometrics I (A); Econometrics II (A-); Microeconomics I (In progress)
Field: IO in Health Market (A); Decision Theory (In progress)
Research Experience
Master Thesis (Duke, Econ); Advisor: Prof. Philipp Sadowski Apr 2025 – present
Excessive Competition and Market Instability: A Theory of the Desire to Win
Use a simple utility model where the desire to win is defined as the utility gain from exceeding others’ payoffs to explain the phenomenon of excessive competition and market instability. Provide a rigorous proof of the condition for no pure‐strategy Nash equilibrium under the desire‐to‐win utility, and derive the mixed‐strategy probability distribution. Use experimental data to show that the desire to win is statistically significant.Research Assistant (Duke, Fuqua); Supervisor: Prof. Anqi Zhao May 2025 – present
Project on Instrumental Variable and Design‐Based Theory for Causal Inference
Perform thorough checks of proofs for lemmas, propositions, and theorems. Read and summarize papers on instrumental variables and the interpretation of LATE. Compare related literature and synthesize the connections and differences among the papers. Collect applied studies that employ IV methods along with their replication packages.Research Assistant (Duke, Fuqua); Supervisor: Prof. Ryan C. McDevitt May 2025 – present
Project on Private Equity Acquisition and Hospital Performance
Use a fuzzy‐matching algorithm to link American Hospital Association data with a private‐equity dataset. Disaggregate system‐level entries into individual hospitals, then merge private‐equity deals and CMS data to construct a hospital–year panel. Finally, apply a staggered DID approach to estimate the treatment effect.Research Assistant (Duke, Fuqua); Supervisor: Prof. Daniel P. Gross Dec 2024 – Apr 2025
Project on Patent, R&D Funding, and Paper Citation
Conducted large-scale data integration and analysis by merging and linking comprehensive datasets, including academic publications, global patent records, and government funding data. Performed exploratory data analysis, data visualization, and text analysis (e.g., title trends across decades). Summarized related literature.Undergraduate Thesis (SWUFE); Advisor: Prof. Jianyu Yu May 2023 – May 2024
Threshold Effect of R&D Investment During Shock: Evidence from COVID-19
Developed an R&D competition model and applied the panel threshold model to validate outcomes. Concluded that firms above a size threshold significantly increased R&D spending during shocks.Research Assistant (SWUFE); Supervisor: Prof. Mengmeng Guo Mar 2023 – Jun 2024
The Impact of Early-Life Earthquake Exposure on Entrepreneurship
Collected and merged household survey data with earthquake disaster data, scraped additional data for mechanism discussions using Python, visualized data by creating heatmaps in STATA, ran regressions, examined mechanisms, conducted heterogeneity analysis, and wrote the manuscript.Independent Research Paper (UCB); Advisor: Prof. Benjamin Schoefer Aug 2022 – Dec 2022
The Asymmetric Effect of Gasoline Prices on Electric Vehicle Sales
Analyzed monthly data to assess the relationship between gasoline prices and electric car sales. Employed the autoregressive distributed lag model to test Granger causality and asymmetric effects in multiple ways. Concluded that consumers respond more strongly to increases in gasoline prices compared to decreases.International Mathematical Contest in Modeling; Team Leader Feb 2022
How Does Asteroid Mining Impact Global Inequality?
Led a team of three to develop a game-theoretic model assessing country participation in asteroid mining. Analyzed historical macroeconomic data and conducted Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the impact on global inequality.
Scholarship & Awards
Merit-Based Tuition Scholarship, Highest (Duke University)
2024–2026
First-Class Academic Scholarship (SWUFE) 2022–2023
Undergraduate Research Scholarship (SWUFE) 2023
First-Prize in Applied Econometric Competition (SWUFE)
2023
First-Class Exchange Program Scholarship (SWUFE) 2022
Meritorious Winner (4% of teams) in International Mathematical Contest
in Modeling (COMAP) 2022
Other Information
Technical Skills: R, Python, STATA, SQL,
Mathematica, LaTeX
Languages: English (fluent), Mandarin (native)