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Urbana, Il, Us

Urbana-Champaign Area

• Developing economic optimization models of land use for bioenergy production and conducting policy analysis in collaboration with other interdisciplinary researchers.

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Applied a stochastic dynamic optimization model to assess the impact of land use changes on water quality and economic benefits.• Developed stochastic price models to assess the timber productivity and identify the optimal forest rotations for maximizing biomass production.• Constructed a hydrological model to project potential drought events given different climate change scenarios.

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

• Supported the integration of econometric parameters into waste planning e-tool which displays various waste process sources and socio-economic outputs.• Provided necessary parameters to be incorporated into an output dashboard for use by Government Officials in planning waste management supply chains.

College Station, Texas, United States

• Eye-tracking consumer behavior and product reviews- Designed an eye-tracking laboratory experiment to investigate how people respond to product reviews, food labels, and adulteration food information in terms of their willingness to pay.- Applied regression-based approaches (e.g., mixed-logit model, Tobit model), random forest, cross-validation, and clustering technique to analyze consumer behavior data.• Impact of plastic bag regulations on sales of plastic bags - Applied econometric models (synthetic control, difference in differences) to examine the effect of plastic bag bans on plastic bag sales in grocery stores using large Nielsen scanner data sets.

College Station, Texas, United States

• (Remotely) taught undergraduate students econometrics in Excel and R using Kaggle data.• Rating of effective instructor: 4/5

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

• Applied econometric models to quantify the economic impact of degrading ocean health and climate change in Southeast Asia.• Applied simulation techniques to predict economic risks in fisheries, mangrove forests, and tourism under different global warming scenarios and extreme weather events.• Estimated the economic losses of leaking plastic waste to the ocean in Southeast Asia.

College Station, Texas, United States

• Taught undergraduate students econometrics in Excel and R using Kaggle data.• Rating of effective instructor: 4.77/5

College Station, Texas, United States

• Taught graduate students optimization and mathematical programming. • Rating for an effective instructor: 4.86/5

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Optimized online ad real-time bidding prices and increased the clickthrough rate of a managed campaign by 263%, and reduced the associated cost-per-click by 73%.• Conducted cross-device retargeting marketing strategies and decreased the cost-per-action by 80%.

Taichung City, Taiwan

• Reviewed foreign virtual power plant (VPP) business models.• Designed a feasible VPP business model for Taiwan's electricity market. • Developed demand response (DR) pricing strategies.• Investigated competition, collusion, and cartel cases in deregulated electricity industries worldwide.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Reviewed the evolution of deregulated electricity markets in the USA.• Analyzed electricity wholesale and retail prices in PJM-Interconnection and CA-ISO.• Drew policy recommendations for Taiwan's electricity industry.

Taiwan

Mandatory Military Service.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Resource And Environmental Economics

Research Interest: Behavioral Economics, Energy Economics, Climate Change, Environmental Economics

Graduate Certificate, Applied Statistics

Specialized in Statistical Learning, Causal Inference, Spatial Statistics, and Categorical data analysis.

Master'S Degree, Agricultural Economics

• Excellent Master’s Thesis Award (Taiwan Association for Environmental and Resource Economics)

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Economics

• Golden Key Award (Outstanding student award) • College Student Research Fellowship (National Science Council) Essay Title: Examine.