About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell in SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, where I am very fortunate to work with Garrett van Ryzin and Li Chen. Before joining Cornell, I obtained my bachelor’s degree at Peking University in Beijing, China.

I am broadly interested in the economic decisions and welfare impacts in modern marketplaces such as ride-hailing and the broader gig economy markets. Taking a combined view of operations and economics, my Ph.D. thesis studies marketplaces at two levels:

• At the industry level, I investigate the strategic interactions among companies and their implications on the market structure.
• At the firm level, I analyze individual firms’ operational decisions such as price and wage setting.

I am passionate about the operations of real-world marketplaces. In summer 2020, I worked as a data science intern at Lyft Marketplace Labs on understanding drivers’ participation patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

See here for more information about my research.