CV

Education

• B.B.A. in Economics, Finance, Business, Baylor University 2014
• M.A. in Economics, Cornell University, 2019

Work experience

• November 2019 to Present: Statistician
  • Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division - Census Bureau
  • Develop and update Census tax model for the Supplmental Poverty Measure (SPM) report. Research income dynamics using survey data linked administrative data.
• August 2017 to May 2019: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Labor Dynamics Institute - Cornell University
  • Applied privacy-preserving algorithms to real large-scale databases. Prepared, cleaned, and organized administrative data files into a Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) infrastructure file format and replicated the construction of the synthetic Longitudinal Business Database (synLBD) for privacy protection and statistical accuracy. Conducted replication exercises to illuminate the feasible scale of accurate, confidentiality-protected queries that can be addressed to large, sparse databases.
• Summer 2014 to Summer 2016: Research Analyst
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  • Programmed econometric and statistical models and solved data structure problems involving large panel and time series data for academic research. Provided further research support for national economic briefings, ad hoc memoranda, Board of Directors’ presentations, Bank publications, and academic papers. Composed briefings and publish public reports on national economic conditions.
• Summer 2013: Research Fellow
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  • Duties included: Analyzed trends and prospects in the economic, infrastructural, technological, and social developments of Caribbean and Latin American nations. Constructed new database on macroeconomic developments for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Estimated the size of the informal economy in Suriname through econometric modeling and presented findings to the office of the Vice President of Suriname.

Teaching

• Guest Lecturer - Computational Tools for Social Scientists
  • Summer 2018
  • Cornell University
• Teaching Assistant - Game Theory
  • Fall 2013 to Spring 2014
  • Baylor University

Skills

• Prgramming Languages
  • Stata
  • R
  • SAS
  • Eviews
  • Excel VBA
  • SQL
  • python
  • Bash
  • Git
• Languages
  • Fluent/Native - English, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien
  • Basic - Japanese, German