Qingwei Qiao

Biography

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Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Washington State University, expected 2025
  • Advisor: Dr. Wesley Blundell
  • Dissertation: Applied Machine Learning, Health and Environmental Economics
• M.S. in Statistics, Washington State University, 2024
  • Advisor: Dr. Daryl R. Deford
  • Dissertation: Social Networks, Natural Language Processing
• M.S. in Economics, Renmin University of China, 2020
• B.S. in Finance, China University of Mining and Technology, 2018
  • Minor: Accounting

Research Interests

• Primary: Applied Machine Learning, Applied Econometrics
• Secondary: Health and Environmental Economics

Working Papers

• “Food Desert Prediction and Health Outcomes”
• “Ambiguous Air Pollution Effects of China’s COVID-19 Lock-down”
• “Quantile Regression with Unobserved Regressors” (with Shengtao Dai and Xiaoqi Dong)

Working In Progress

• “Analyzing the Dynamics of Care Groups and CLTN in Shaping Social Networks and Information Diffusion“
• “Machines Learn Finance From Chinese Text Data“

Research Experience

• Research Assistant — School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, U.S., Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
• Research Assistant — School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, U.S., Summer 2022, Summer 2023

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant — School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University
  • ECONS 301 Intermediate Microeconomics Theory with Calculus, Fall 2021
  • ECONS 311 Introductory Econometrics, Spring 2022
  • ECONS 527 Microeconomic Analysis, Fall 2022
  • ECONS 431 Economic Analysis of Environmental and Natural Resource Policies, Spring 2023

Awards

• Endowment for Sustainable Development Fellowship, Washington State University, 2024
• Mercer Ranches SES Specialty Crops Fellowship, Washington State University, 2023

Skills

• Programming: Python, Java, R, STATA, SQL, Spark, Tableau, LATEX, SAS, ArcGIS
• Language: Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent)

References

• Dr. Wesley Blundell (Chair)
  • Assistant Professor, Washington State University, wesley.blundell@wsu.edu
• Dr. Jill McCluskey
  • Director & Regents Professor, Washington State University, mccluskey@wsu.edu
• Dr. Jia Yan
  • Professor, Washington State University, jiay@wsu.edu