About me: I am a Research Associate in the Department of Economics & Public Policy, Business School, Imperial College London. I hold a Ph.D in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Birmingham (2025). 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 (2020) and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (2019).

Research:  I work on macroeconomics, with a particular focus on heterogeneous-agent macroeconomics. My research studies how health, human capital, labor-market frictions, information, climate change, and fiscal policy etc. shape individual behavior, aggregate economic outcomes, and the distribution of income and wealth.

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 current research:

• Primary field: Macroeconomics / Heterogeneous-Agent Macroeconomics

• Themes: Inequality and Distribution; Risk, Insurance, and Behavior

• Major applications: Health; Infectious Diseases; Labor Markets; Human Capital; Climate Change

• Methods: Dynamic Heterogeneous-agent Models, General Equilibrium, Computational Methods; Continuous-time Dynamic Programming; Structural Estimation

Teaching: Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Mathematical Economics; Health Economics

New Items

08-Sept-2026 Imperial Module Health Economics slides available here

07-Sept-2026 A new working paper Persistent Health Risk, Job Search, and Labor Market Outcomes, with Aditya Goenka & Lin Liu is available  here

18-Aug-2026 A new version of working paper Infectious Diseases and Inequality, with Aditya Goenka & Lin Liu is available here

01-July-2026 A new working paper Better Off Apart? Young Leavers and the Mental Health of Older Adults, with Yibei Qu & Alessandra Guariglia is available here

30-Jun-2026 Society of Computational Economics, presentation slides available here, and full slides available here 

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

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