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Liyun Chen's CV

General Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Age: 23
  • Nationality: Chinese

Research Interests

Current Position

Marketing Analyst (June, 2012 - )

  • eBay

Economic Consultant (Aug, 2011 - May, 2012)

  • Shanghai In-Flow Infotech Ltd.
    • Designed and operated large-scale randomized field experiments on cellphone users.
    • Implemented data mining and econometric methods on micro-level big data with R, SQL and Python.
    • Delivered business proposals, evaluation reports, and visual presentations.
    • Directed project-based team work by constructing cooperation flow.

Education

M.Sc in Economics

Bachelor in Economics

Experience

Research in Economics:

  • Master Thesis: Expectations and the Social Network: Modeling Health Risk Perception among U.S. Adolescents (with Mahesh Karra). June, 2011.[Challenge Cup AwardAwarded as A+ level thesis, Part]
    • Modeled the health risk perception among adolescents based on their social networks, with consideration of network effects and social distance.
    • Examined the network effects using the Add Health dataset with GMM-IV method in panel data.
  • Coursework: Has Financial Innovation Boosted Industrial Growth? Evidence fromthe Emergence of Piaohao in 19th-20th Century China. June, 2011.
  • Coursework: Mere Exposure Effect in Partner Matching: Why Does Social Distance Matter? (with Hrvoje Stojic). April, 2011.
  • Bachelor Thesis: Social Network, the Internet and Information Transmission (Challenge Cup AwardAwarded "University's Excellent Graduation Thesis"). June, 2010 [Part]
    • Examined the influences of social networks and public media on information transmission, in particular, the speed and quality of information distribution.
    • Analyzed co-author relationship data and performed computational simulations of different social network structures demonstrating the extent to which the Internet influences individual utility levels.
  • Working Paper: What Do We Pay For Asymmetric Information? The Mechanism Evolution in Online Markets Nov, 2009.
    • Published as The Mechanism Evolution and Information Transmission in Online Markets (我国网上交易的机制演化与信息传导) (with Yue Qiao), Journal of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (CSSCI), 2012, 192 (03).
    • Download the Chinese version here.
    • Built a sequence of principal-agent models based on incentive theories, and discussed the impact of different mechanism designs on market outcomes and the additional cost needed.
    • Examined mechanisms of the reputation, punishment, and barriers to entry and evaluated their respective boundary validation conditions.
  • Book: Play Econometrics with R (working in process, in Chinese) [Preview]
    • Compiled a manual on the realizations of modern econometric methods in R.

More: list of [Papers and Presentations ]

Conference:

  • A First Course on Statistical Thinking with News, Speaker, the 5th China-R Conference, Renmin University of China. May, 2012
  • Analyzing Social Network Experiments in R, Chair and Speaker, the 4th China-R Conference, East China Normal University, Shanghai. Nov, 2011.
  • Experiments in Social Networks, Speaker, the 6th Chinese Conference of Complex Networks, UESTC, Chengdu. Oct, 2011.
  • Econometrics and Statistics Using R, Speaker, the 2nd Chinese R Conference, Renmin University Of China, Beijing and East China Normal University, Shanghai. Dec, 2009.

Teaching:

I was responsible for the recitation session. If you want, you may see the presentations I used here: Recitation Session
Forthcoming...
  • Provide popular science tranings on statistics for journalists, organized by songshuhui.net [Link for the record ]
  • Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics (3rd undergraduate), Shandong University, 2009-2010. [Job description ]

Consulting:

  • Board Moderator of COS (Capital of Statistics), Renmin University of China, 2009-now.
  • Adviser for Association of Statistics Communication, Central South University, 2009-now.

Communication Media:

Reported news and took photos for the public relations department of university student union, as well as school of economics.
Served as a Program Planner, and devoted myself into providing high-quality TV programs for both teachers and students.
Selected and organized appropriate articles for school magazine, as well as wrote specials on hot topics at school.
This blog was built in winter, 2006, when I entered university and started my college life. Now it is subscribed by hundreds of readers through RSS, and there are more than 300 posts favored by the search engines like Google.com. Moreover, I have helped hundreds readers via email, to solve their questions about professional knowledge in economics and mathematics, and the use of some software like latex, R and Stata.
It is a wonderful bridge between my readers and me, and brings me numerous friends from different industries.
Journalist and Photographer[Job description ]2006-2008
Program planner for high school TV station[Job description ]2004-2006
Editor of middle school magazine[Job description ]2001-2003
Blog owner of loyhome.com (a Blog focused on Economics and the Internet)[Details ]2004-now

Computer and Website:

constructed the main website of my school and several sub-sites like anniversary site, a journal site, alumni site, etc., and offered technical support.
designed user-friendly interface
designed user-friendly interface and developed related extensions.
developed a new web-service system based on PHP, MySQL and Ajax in group.
Position Institution Time
Developer and Website Administratorcollege's website (www.eco.sdu.edu.cn) and several sub-sites
[Job description, ScreenShot ]
2006-now
Codex Translator and Graphic Designerwordpress WordPress (an Open-source software)
[Job description, Themes ]
2008-2009
Graphic Designer and Tool Developermaxthon Maxthon (a popular web browser, free software)
[Job description, Released Works ]
2007-2008
Program Developer, Graphic Designer and Technical SupporterStudent Online (online.sdu.edu.cn, a university website)
[Job description, ScreenShots ]
2006-2008

Others:

surveyed the market and participated in selling productions and technical department.
  • Trainee of China Unicom (a Telecom Operator, a FORTUNE 500 company) [Job description ], 2006-2007

Other Knowledge

Computer Science:

  • Data Mining, Algorithm
  • C/C++ Programming Language (Challenge Cup AwardNational Certification)
  • Network Technology (Challenge Cup AwardNational Certification)
  • Software Development, etc.

Biology:

  • Physiology, Microbiology, Ecology, Biochemistry, Genetics, etc.

Also see [Interests ].

Computational Skills

Languages:

  • For Programming:
    • C/C++ (Excellent)
    • Java (Good)
    • Basic (Little)
  • For Website Service[Works ]:
    • PHP (Excellent: I have developed a large web-service software system using it)
    • Asp and .net (Good)
    • Jsp (Good)
    • Python (Little)
    • SQL (Excellent)
    • HTML+CSS+JavaScript (Excellent)
    • Ajax (Good)

Softwares:

  • Mathematics and Statistics Softwares: R (favourite~), Stata, Matlab
  • Database Management System: Mysql, Oracle, Access
  • Graphics: photoshopPhotoshop [Works ], flashFlash [Works ], illustratorIllustrator [Works ]
  • Other: latex, wordWord, excleExcel, pptPowerPoint, dreamweaverDreamweaver

Operating Systems:

  • Linux (Ubuntu)
  • Windows

Languages

  • Chinese (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • Spanish (basic)

Academic Courses

Economics (Main):

  • Advanced Microeconomics (Ph.D level)
  • Advanced Macroeconomics (Ph.D level)
  • Econometric Methods (Ph.D level)
  • Topics in Development (Ph.D level)
  • International Economic History (Ph.D level)
  • Game Theory and Information Economics
  • Time Series Analysis, Mathematical Economics

All Courses of Economics

  • History of Chinese Economic Thoughts
  • History of Economic Theories
  • Economic Statistics
  • Labor Economics (both undergraduate and Ph.D levels)
  • Law and Economics
  • Economic Law
  • International Economics

    [Textbook: International Economics, By Dominick Salvatore]

  • International Trade
  • International Finance
  • Finance and Investment
  • Money and Finance Market
  • Public Finance
  • Basic Accounting
  • Management
  • Ecological Economics
  • Social Cost-Benefit Analysis and Applications in Environmental Economics
  • Development Economics

see also: [my Reading List (record from Douban.com) ]

Mathematics:

  • Mathematical Analysis (3 semesters)
  • Real Analysis (graduate level)
  • Advanced Algebra (2 semesters)
  • Theory of Probability
  • Mathematical Statistics
  • Numerical Analysis (with Matlab and R)
  • Functional Analysis
  • Operational Research (optimal programming, dynamic programming, graph theory, etc.)
  • Complex Analysis

 

Reference

Honors & Awards

  • Excellent Graduation Thesis (for bachelor's degree, top 2% out of 325), Shandong University, 2010
  • Excellent student scholarship, Shandong University, 2009
  • Challenge Cup (National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, twice) [Description ]
    The first one is for starting a new business; The second one is for this academic report, see: An Evaluation of the Ecological Economic Functions of Jinan Liubu National Forest Park, 2009
  • Outstanding Working Performance Award (2 of 110) [Description]
    For the outstanding working performance as a programmer in Student Online, the students' website of SDU.
    I was the first one who was honored only after the first-year's work- usually it is the ultimate award for the members who have made contributions to this organization.
  • Outstanding Public Relations Title (5 of 80, twice) [Description]
    For the outstanding performance in communication media work.
    I have wrote many articles published on newspapers and built the college's website.
  • Excellent League Cadre and Excellent Student Cadre (10 of 200, twice) [Description ]
    For the Excellent work in Student Union, as a member and a vice-chair, respectively.

Papers and Presentations

Papers/Reports

For details, see[Papers and Presentations ]

Discussions/Presentations

Extra-curricular Service

  • Vice-Chair of Public Relations Department of the Student Union
    • Coordinated the union's relationships with companies and public media to spread our influence.
  • Job Interviewer for University Press
    • Served as an interviewer to help the press select technical supporters.
  • Volunteer for Amateur Astronomers Association
    • Organized group activities and publicized the non-profit association.
  • Volunteer for the college's anniversary meeting

Interests

Besides of economics, computer science, mathematics and biology, I also have strong interests in the following fields:

  • Astronomy: Since my childhood, my dream is to own a telescope.
  • Art and Design: I like the feeling of creating. See Part [Design ]
  • Photography: After class and especially in holidays, I love wandering and shooting as a record of life's beauty. See Part [Photography ]
  • Communication Media: It's interesting and challenging to report what is happening.
  • Philosophy: Thinking is a good choice when spending a long silent night alone.
  • Poetry: Sometimes I write some poems just following inspiration.
  • Collection: letter paper, envelope, game box

Contact Information

Address: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona

         Website: www.cloudlychen.net Chinese Blog: www.loyhome.com

posted on 2012-12-09 13:52  lexus  阅读(291)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报