Experience

International Monetary Fund — Economist (Economist Program), Sept 2023 – present

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — Dissertation Intern, Aug 2021

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania — Research Assistant for Prof. Ben Keys, Jan 2020 – Sept 2021

University of Pennsylvania — Teaching Assistant, Introductory Economics and Introductory Macroeconomics, 2018 – 2019

Federal Reserve Bank of New York — (Senior) Research Analyst, Aug 2015 – July 2017

Education

University of Pennsylvania — Ph.D. in Economics, 2017 – 2023 Committee: José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (chair), Dirk Krueger, Joachim Hubmer

University of Wisconsin-Madison — B.A. in Economics (with Honors), Mathematics and Computer Science, 2011 – 2015

Honors & Fellowships
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2017 – 2022
  • Dissertation Fellowship, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2021
  • University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2017 – 2021
  • Xingmei Zhang & Yongge Dai Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2018 – 2019
  • Vault Award, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2016
  • Meek Bishop Award in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
  • L. G. Ammerman Award in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
Other

Refereeing: Macroeconomic Dynamics, Young Economist Symposium (2021)

Languages: Chinese (native), English (fluent)

Skills: Stata, MATLAB, Python, Julia, Java, LaTeX, Git