CV
A detailed CV can be found here.
Education
- Master of Arts UZH in Business and Economics, University of Zurich, 2021
- Bachelor of Economics, Peking University, 2018
Professional Experience
- Oct 2021 - Present: Associate Economist under Prof. Kent Smetters
- University of Pennsylvania, Penn Wharton Budget Model
- Conducted applied economics research on the causal effects of the college tuition response to the increase in the federal student aid introduced by a reform of the student loan repayment options
- Produced public policy analysis on various topics, including Federal Student Loan reforms, U.S. healthcare system reforms, Build Back Better Act climate reforms
- Published 10+ briefs on budgetary cost and distributional effects of U.S. Student Loan Forgiveness, Income- Driven Repayment Plan, cited by major press such as New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, and the Hill
- Delivered guest talks at Q&A sessions in Public Policy Certificate programs on topics such as College Financing and Student Loan Reforms
- Nov 2020 - July 2021: Research Assistant under Prof. Florian Scheuer
- University of Zurich, Department of Economics
- Utilized Python to conduct independent data analysis with Pandas libraries for a project on the optimization of tax on U.S. entrepreneur revenues
- Contributed to the calculation of 105,000+ companies’ classification, founder’s share evolving time series based on venture-based deal record database from data sets such as PitchBook and PrivCo
- Conducted web scraping using Python libraries such as BeautifulSoup and request to gather cap-table information on 1,000+ IPO companies
- Used wptools Python API to sparse 500+ founders’ information from Wikipedia into a structured data set, combined with Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) libraries to filter founder names
- Dec 2015 - Sep 2016: Part-time Consulting Associate
- Bain & Company
- Researched on market competitors in the food/healthcare/e-commerce industries
- Used Excel VBA to accelerate the process of collecting webpage data and information by 200%
- Industrial report data collection and analysis