CV

Experience

• 2026 to present Economist & Research ScientistAmazon
• Summers 2024 and 2025 InternAmazon

Education

• 2021 to 2026 Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2019 to 2021 M.S., Cornell University
• 2015 to 2019 B.S., Nankai University

Publications

• 2025 LLM Strategic Reasoning: Agentic Study through Behavioral Game TheoryNeurIPS
• 2025 Pathways linking WASH access and women's empowermentJournal of Rural Studies
• 2024 Decision-Making Behavior Evaluation Framework for LLMs under Uncertain ContextNeurIPS
• 2024 An Experimental Study of Competitive Market Behavior Through LLMsNeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning
• 2024 Information interventions and willingness to pay for PICS bagsFood Policy

Working Papers

• In progress Measuring and Closing the Value Action Gap in LLM Agents

Additional manuscripts in behavioral and development economics are completed and forthcoming.

Teaching

• Spring 2025 Guest Lecturer & Teaching Assistant, ACE 474 Consumer EconomicsUIUC · Excellent Teaching Award
• Fall 2023 Discussion Session Instructor, ACE 251 World Food EconomyUIUC
• Spring 2023, 2024 Teaching Assistant, ACE 451 Agriculture in International DevelopmentUIUC
• Fall 2022 Teaching Assistant, ACE 476 Behavioral EconomicsUIUC