Education
PhD candidate in Economics
University of Maryland, College Park(UMD)
Jul. 2021 - May 2026(Expected)
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Applied Econometrics
B.A. in Economics (highest honors) and Mathematics (honors), Summa Cum Laude
Brandeis University
Aug. 2015 - May. 2019
Work experience
Economist Intern
Amazon.com Services, Inc
May 2025 - Aug. 2025: Prime Economics Team; Located in Seattle, WA
Onboarded team to Amazon-internal computing infrastructure for surrogate methods and maintained data pipeline; created the prototype long-term Prime-related metric by surrogate methods for Prime onsite marketing from model training to metric exporting; worked with engineers, scientists product managers to build the pipeline for metric exporting for Prime’s internal use case; assisted Prime’s Amazon Scholar in further developing unified methodology; provided demos within Prime Science teams and new team member for knowledge transfer and project handover
May 2024 - Aug. 2024: Perfect Order Experience ECON (POE-ECON) Team; Located in Sunnyvale, CA
Studied how to perceived duplicate items affect customer purchasing behavior and sales; provided business recommendations for catalog cleaning and enforcement; presented the project multiple times to team members, business stakeholders and other economists and scientists at Amazon
Graduate Assistant
Econ Department, University of Maryland, College Park
Jul. 2021 -
Research Assistant
PI: Prof. Ginger Jin, Prof. Liad Wagman, Spring 2022 - Fall 2023
Prof. Luminita Stevens, Summer 2023
Teaching Assistant for ECON 200 Principles of Microeconomics, Fall 2021
Teaching Assistant for ECON 306 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory and Policy, Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant for ECON 326 Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis, Fall 2022, Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant for ECON 422 Econometrics, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
PhD Comprehensive Exam Review - Microeconomics, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025
Instructor for ECON 326 Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis, Summer 2023
Teaching Assistant for ECON 603 Microeconomic Analysis I, Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Instructor for ECON306 Intermeidate Microeconomic Theory and Policy, Winter 2024
Program Coordinator for Master's Program in Applied Economics, Fall 2025
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2021
Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Covert, Prof. Ryan Kellogg
Research Assistant
Math department, Brandeis University
July. 2018 - May. 2019
Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Touboul
Teaching Assistant
Econ department, Brandeis University
Aug. 2017 - May. 2019
Intro to Micro, Econometrics
Supervisor: Prof. Mike Coiner, Prof. Davide Pettenuzzo
Tutor/Grader
Math department, Brandeis University
Aug. 2016 - May. 2019
Pre-calculus, Intro to Prob and Stats, Calculus I/II, Linear Algebra
Supervisor: Prof. Rebecca Torrey, Prof. Keith Merrill
Skills
Language
Chinese (Mandarin): Native Speaker
English: Fluent/Proficient
Computer
R
Python
MATLAB
Stata
SQL
Git
LaTeX
AWS