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2021

June 10. Professor Antoinette Schoar presented the research on the bitcoin blockchain at a Princeton University-held online seminar. Watch the recording on YouTube.
April 5. I presented recent literature on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency in a recent reading group at HBS. See the slides at this link.
March 2. I am admitted to the finance Ph.D. program at MIT Sloan. Looking forward to studying courses 14 and 15 in person this fall :)

July. Professor Jonathan A. Parker and co-authors' paper A Dynamic Theory of Lending Standards appeared in the NBER WP series. Read the ungated version of the paper and the data appendix that surveys the credit bureaus in the world.
Apr 22. I helped write a blog post on how credit card companies target less-educated consumers with more complicated offers.
Apr 2. I wrote a blog post on the economic effect of the public health response during the 1918 Flu.

Jul 31. I have started working at MIT. Welcome to visit me at E70-1385c (Golub Center for Finance and Policy)!
May 13. I presented my thesis on post-IPO overpricing among Chinese stocks. The paper will be available upon request.
Jan 16. I accepted the research assistant offer from Professor Jonathan A. Parker and Antoinette Schoar at MIT Sloan. I will start working in mid-2019.
Jan 15. We published our paper, Variance-Reduced Stochastic Learning by Networked Agents under Random Reshuffling, in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Read the free arXiv version.

Oct 1. I joined the M.S. Statistics program at the University of Chicago.
Sept 6. Our paper, Variance-Reduced Stochastic Learning by Networked Agents under Random Reshuffling, was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Read the free, arXiv version.
Sept 3. I finished my work on the Lemo library. We are preparing for the first release and publication.
July 16. I worked as the teaching assistant of short-term courses taught by Yuan Zhong, Martin Wainwright, and Christopher S. Tang.
Feb 28. I worked as the teaching assistant of Linear Algebra and Operations Research (II) at the RIIS at SHUFE.

Dec 15-17. I visited 9 startup companies in Shenzhen together with the Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs at Berkeley. Read our blog post in Chinese (微信推送).
Oct 31. We presented an overview of neural network language models in the natural language processing seminar at UCLA.
Sept 5. I held my first academic talk on saving communications in decentralized optimization in Professor Wotao Yin's group.
June 8. We presented matrix estimation with rank constraints in the high dimensional statistics seminar at UCLA.

Sept 1. I presented my work on variable selection of group features on a rat neuron dataset.