Research Experience
Research Assistant
March 2025 – Jul. 2025
Mentor: Dr. Panle Jia Barwick, Distinguished Chair Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Project: Innovation and Market Structure in China’s Pharmaceutical R&D Sector
- Performed bilingual fuzzy matching between pharmaceutical sales firms and sponsors using Python, with custom preprocessing and scoring-based validation.
- Collected and structured detailed information (e.g., address, province, stock code) for over 1,500 pharmaceutical companies from online public sources.
- Matched anti-cancer drugs with clinical sponsor data, ensuring consistency across product names, formulations, and associated corporate entities.
Research Assistant
May 2024 – Aug. 2024
Mentor: Dr. Guanming Shi, Renk Agribusiness Chair, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Project: Policy Responses to Sustain Competitiveness, Innovation, and Resilience in the Genetically Engineered Crop Era
- Overall project aim to analyze farmer demand, firm supply, and innovation in the seed market, incorporating genetically engineered (GE) traits and climate risks into farmers’ demand.
- Utilized Python to scrape and gather annual corn seed production data (2013-2018) from 4,938 U.S. companies across various counties. Employed Stata to clean, match, and build a comprehensive project database with over 40,000 entries.
Research Assistant
Apr. 2023 – Mar. 2024
Mentor: Dr. Panle Jia Barwick, Distinguished Chair Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Project: Drive Down the Cost: Learning by Doing and Government Policies in the Global EV Battery Industry
- Analyzed sales data and market trends for electric vehicles (EV) across China, Europe, Canada, Japan, and other countries to identify key parameters influencing EV adoption.
- Cleaned and organized raw datasets by Stata, ensuring consistency and accuracy for statistical analysis.
Research Assistant
Aug. 2022 – Oct. 2023
Mentor: Dr. Tianshu Li, Assistant Professor, Xi'An Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- Project: Effects and Countermeasures of the "Yellow River Flood Area" from 1938 to 1947
- Used ArcGIS to compare and adjust the boundary maps of counties and cities in China with 1990, match the county-level statistical regions and indicators, and clean and adjust the statistical data by area, so as to build a complete county-level panel data before and after the Yellow River flood period.
Research Assistant
Jul. 2023 – Sep. 2023
Mentor: Dr. Yuan Chen, Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
- Project: Evaluating Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles
- Retrieved and processed household electricity consumption data for China’s provinces (2015–2019) using the Bloomberg database to support analysis of environmental benefits from EV adoption.
Research Assistant
Sep. 2022 – May 2023
Mentor: Dr. Ye Bai, Head Professor of Department of Economics, Xi'An Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- Project: The Influence of Information and Personality Traits in Asset Markets
- Designed and implemented asset market game experiments using Ztree, focusing on the influence of information and personality traits in asset markets.
- Organized and managed experiments involving hundreds of participants, ensuring successful completion and accurate data collection.