Annabel Qihui Hu 胡琦慧
Ph.D. candidate of Public Policy @Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. candidate of Public Policy @Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
ABOUT
I am a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Management at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, proudly advised by Prof. Edson Severnini. I am passionate about environmental economics, with a research focus spanning air quality, monitoring, and environmental justice. I earned my bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, and Statistics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and my master's degree in Economics from Duke University.
Air Pollution Impacts
Monitoring and Strategic Behavior
Policy Evaluation
M.A. in Economics, Duke University
B.S. in Finance, B.S. in Statistics and Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Work in Progress
"Impact of Monitoring on Air Pollution", joint with Prof. Edson Severnini and Prof. Andrea La Nauze, Presented at AERE Summer Conference 2024 @DC
"Steel Mills Down: Impact of Blast Furnace Closure on Air Quality, Employment, and Infant Mortality Rate", joint with Prof. Edson Severnini and Prof. Valerie Karplus, Presented at EMEE 2025 Conference @World Bank
"Discrimination During Eviction Moratoria", joint with Prof. Alina Arefeva, Dr. Kay Jowers, and Prof. Christopher Timmins
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
94-834 Applied Econometrics I (2022 - Now)
95-710 Economics Analysis (2023 - Now)
90-755 Optimization (2023 - Now)
94-475 Practical Unstructured Data Analytics
94-867 Decision Analytics for Business and Policy
90-452 Applied Statistics for Public Policy
Personal
Full-time PhD Student and Part-time Youtuber
Proud Mom of two cats, two dogs, and one chinchilla
Floral Designs | Writing | Photography
Email: qihuih@andrew.cmu.edu
Phone: (217) 271-7258
Office Address: Office 2007, 4800 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213