Bio & C.V.

During my undergraduate career, I worked as a research assistant in various fields of economics, including homelessness policy (with Prof. David Grusky and Dr. Derek Christopher), education (Prof. Ran Abramitzky), and macroeconomics (with Prof. Adrien Auclert).

My main research interests center around the effects of policy on socioeconomically disadvantaged populations in the United States. Most of my current work is on homelessness: which interventions work, for whom, and under what local conditions.

At the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, I evaluated more than 40 quasi-experimental studies and randomized controlled trials of homelessness interventions. That review underpins the tool I am now building at IRiSS, which recommends suites of policies suited to each Continuum of Care’s local context, priorities, and budget. Along the way I built a crosswalk from Continuums of Care to census places, so that census and homelessness data can be used together, and presented it at a convening on unsheltered homelessness in Los Angeles in March 2026. I am also developing a quasi-experimental study on how psychiatric holds affect later outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

As an Undergraduate Research Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, I helped compile and analyze a dataset on U.S. college admissions and student life outcomes for Prof. Abramitzky’s research on higher education and social mobility, and wrote code analyzing PSID and DINA data for Prof. Auclert’s research on inequality and asset demand. My honors thesis, advised by Prof. Auclert, uses Italian household survey data to estimate marginal propensities to consume and studies what they imply for the dynamics of debt-financed fiscal stimulus.

Before that, I spent a summer as a research assistant in Stanford’s Department of Political Science, working on the socioeconomic impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.

Education

2022–2026: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Economics
Honors thesis “Empirical MPCs and the Dynamics of Fiscal Stimulus,” advised by Prof. Adrien Auclert, awarded the Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis.
2020–2022: Tanglin Trust School, Singapore

Research Experience

2026–present: Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS)
Postbaccalaureate Researcher
Building a policymaker-facing tool that recommends homelessness interventions suited to a locality's context, priorities, and budget, and developing a quasi-experimental study on the effect of psychiatric holds on later outcomes among people experiencing homelessness.
Jun 2024 – Jun 2026: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Research Assistant
Evaluated more than 40 quasi-experimental studies and randomized controlled trials of homelessness interventions, and began work on a recommendation tool for policymakers that accounts for each Continuum of Care's local context. Built a CoC-to-place crosswalk that bridges census and homelessness data sources.
Jan 2024 – Jun 2026: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Undergraduate Research Fellow
With Prof. Ran Abramitzky's team, compiled and analyzed a dataset on U.S. college admissions and student life outcomes to study the effect of higher education on social mobility; figures appear in “The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century” (2024). With Prof. Adrien Auclert, wrote Python, Stata, and R code to analyze PSID and DINA data on the effect of inequality on asset demand, for “The Race Between Asset Supply and Asset Demand” (2025), an NBER working paper presented at the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole conference.
Jun – Sep 2023: Stanford Department of Political Science
Research Assistant
Compiled and harmonized large datasets in SPSS, Stata, and R, and ran regression analyses on public-attitudes and climate data to study the socioeconomic impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.

Presentations

Mar 2026: “Bridging Homelessness and Census Data: A CoC-to-Place Geographic Crosswalk.” Poster, Evidence, Experience, and Pathways: A Convening on Unsheltered Homelessness in L.A., USC Homelessness Policy Research Institute and SIEPR.

Activities

Stanford HAI: Co-founded, with Dr. Lukas Althoff, a Student Affinity Group at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI on the labor market impacts of AI, bringing together economists and technologists for panel discussions and recorded interviews.

Skills

Technical: Python, R, Stata, SPSS, C++, Excel
Languages: English (native), Mandarin Chinese (conversational)