Curriculum Vitae

E-mail: [first name] [last initial] at Unity


30 3rd Street,

San Francisco, CA 94103

I lead economics at Unity (NYSE: U), where I work on ads auctions, machine learning, pricing and business models, and other strategic decisioning across the company. I am currently also a visiting scholar at the HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong.

My research interests are in Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, and Quantitative Marketing.

Previously, I was a visiting scholar in the Marketing Department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Principal Researcher in the Office of the Chief Economist at Microsoft Research, where I launched Azure Spot VMs, dynamically setting prices and allocation rules for Microsoft's cloud capacity.


Journal Publications

with Giovanni Compiani, Greg Lewis, and Sida Peng, Forthcoming, Marketing Science.


with Yue Hou, Economics Letters, 2020, 194 (September): 109369.


Articles

with Chien-Hsun Huang, Sowmya Kumar, Emily Yan, Sachid Deshmukh, and Kaan Katircioglu

MSJAR, 2022, Vol. 17, 183-193.


with Ann Harrison, Marshall Meyer, Linda Zhao, and Minyuan Zhao

VoxEU, April 2019.


Working Papers

with Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton), Katja Seim (Yale) and Michael Sinkinson (Yale)

Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Review

Prior version: NBER Working Paper 23034

Featured in: NPR Planet Money, Knowledge@Wharton


Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Marketing


with Ann Harrison (Haas), Marshall Meyer (Wharton), Linda Zhao (Wharton) and Minyuan Zhao (Olin)

Reject & Resubmit, Strategic Management Journal

Prior version: NBER Working Paper 25475

Featured in: VoxEU, NBER Digest


with Chuqing Jin (Toulouse) and Sida Peng (Microsoft)

Under review


with Eric Auerbach (Northwestern), Hongwei Liang (Microsoft), Sida Peng (Microsoft),  Andy Wu (Harvard), and Feng Zhu (Harvard)

Reject & Resubmit, Information Systems Research


with Marjorie McElroy (Duke)


with Jin Soo Han (KAIST)