2025 —
PhD, Economics and Finance
Bocconi University · Milan, IT
Bocconi University PhD Fellowship.
§ 03 · CV
Curriculum vitæ
A compact record in book form — arrow keys or the chapter buttons to turn the page. Full PDF available here.
Chapter I
Education
"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence." — Abigail Adams, 1780
Bocconi University · PhD
Singapore Management University · M.Sc.
Shanghai University · B.Econ
Singapore Management University · M.Sc.
Shanghai University · B.Econ
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Chapter I · Education
2023 — 2024
M.Sc. Economics (Econometrics & Quant)
Singapore Management University · Singapore
GPA 4.0 / 4.0. Dean's List. Robert S. Mariano Award.
2018 — 2022
B.Econ, Economics
Shanghai University · Shanghai, CN
GPA 87.28 / 100. Excellent Graduation Thesis.
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Chapter II
Research positions
"A scholar is usually ruined by good company." — Samuel Johnson, attributed
Three positions across two continents — all working at the edge of text, identification, and administrative data. Advisors on the facing page.
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Chapter II · Positions
2024 —
Full-Time RA · Karsten Müller
NUS Business School, National University of Singapore
Geopolitics of industrial policy; social media and democracy.
May — Aug 2024
Part-Time RA · Aljoscha Janssen
School of Economics, Singapore Management University
Eye-catching titles in economics; BERT fine-tuning.
Sep 2023 — Jan 2024
Part-Time RA · Xuan Zhang
School of Economics, Singapore Management University
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Chapter III
Honors & awards
"Honours and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honour lies." — Alexander Pope, 1733
Eight selected awards · 2021 — 2025
Fellowships · Academic Prizes
Competitions · Theses
Fellowships · Academic Prizes
Competitions · Theses
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Chapter III · Awards
- Bocconi University PhD Fellowship2025
- Robert S. Mariano Excellence in Applied Economics Award — SMU2025
- Dean's List, SMU School of Economics2024
- KWANPEN Postgraduate Summer Venture Awards, SMU2024
- Honorable Mention — Generate your AI Library Hackathon, SMU2023
- 3rd Prize — 1st National LLM Innovation & Creative Application Competition, China2023
- Excellent Graduation Thesis — Shanghai University2023
- 1st Prize — 3rd Undergraduate Academic Forum of SHU2021
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Chapter IV
The craft
"The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning." — Vitruvius, De architectura, i.1
My toolkit, as a manifest. Econometrics on one axis, modern ML on the other — and a little Italian, to be polite.
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Chapter IV · Skills
# languages & frameworks
languages = ["Python", "R", "Stata", "SQL", "LaTeX"]
ml_stack = ["PyTorch", "Transformers",
"scikit-learn", "spaCy"]
models = ["BERT", "LLaMA",
"Longformer", "GPT-4 / Claude"]
infra = ["AWS", "SLURM", "Docker", "Git"]
# econometrics
methods = ["Difference-in-Differences",
"Event Study", "IV", "Matching",
"Synthetic Control", "Panel FE"]
Languages & tests
- IELTS — L 8.0 · R 7.5 · W 7.0 · S 6.0—
- GRE — V 158 · Q 167—
- Mandarin (native) · English (fluent) · Italian (beginner)—
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