About me: I am a Research Associate at the Imperial College London.  I hold a Ph.D in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Birmingham. I was supervised by Prof. Aditya Goenka and Prof. Kimberley Scharf. Before I joined the University of Birmingham in 2020, I got MSc and BSc degree at Cardiff University and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.

Research interest:  I work on computational macroeconomics. I study economic effects such as growth and income/wealth distribution from health, human capital, climate change, fiscal policies, etc. My research particularly focuses on modeling the impact of epidemiology and pandemics on individual behavior and aggregate economic outcomes.

The methods are at the intersection of general equilibrium theory, continuous-time dynamic programming, and heterogeneous agent models. I also work on methodology research, applying modern machine learning (e.g., deep neural networks, reinforcement learning) to solve macroeconomic models.

My main research area includes: 

Inequality and distribution; 

Economic Epidemiology Model; 

Local Government Debt in China; Charitable Organization in China; 

Labour Market Friction: Direct Search Model

I am interested in the following methodology:

Continuous-time Dynamic Programming; Machine Learning for Macroeconomics; Empirical Microeconometrics

New Items

22-Sept-2025 Birmingham Epidemiology Economic Workshop, slides available here

15-July-2025 Birmingham Economic Theory Workshop, slides available here

05-July-2025 SAET workshop, MINERVA project, slides available here 

02-June-2025 Stockholm workshop discuss slides; presenting slides

03-Mar-2025   A New working paper, Climate Change, Labor Market Friction and Inequality, is available Here

13-Nov-2024    A New section on my website "Latest Insights" is created to display our latest results.

09-Sept-2024   Project codes for the paper Visualizing the Equilibrium Manifold are uploaded to GitHub 

01-Sept-2024    A new working paper What does Charitable Fundraising Respond to: Disaster or the Government? is available in SSRN

31-Aug-2024     A new version of the working paper Health and Economic Inequality During Pandemics is now available in the Econometric Society Conference Paper

25-July-2024    Updated slides for project  What does Charitable Fundraising Respond to: Disaster or the Government? are available in the Dropbox

01-July-2024    CV is updated

25-June-2024   Updated slides for the project Health and Economic Inequality During Pandemics are available in the Dropbox

10-Oct-2023      Lecture notes for Advanced Microeconomics are ready for download