Hongyuan Jin

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EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara June 2022

Ph.D. in Economics Santa Barbara, CA

• Jenifer Jo Williamson Fellowship

• Outstanding Undergraduate TA Award

Master’s in Economics June 2017

(Dual) Master’s in Statistics June 2022

University of Wisconsin-Madison May 2015

Master’s in Economics Madison, WI

Peking University June 2013

Bachelor’s in Economics Beijing, China

• Freshman Scholarship

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Postdoc Sept 2023–current

Jinan University Guangzhou, China

• Project title: Gender Di erences in Skill Returns–Opportunities and Barriers in the Platform Economy

• Analyze platform-based labor data to understand gender disparities in application trends, past experiences, and skill development

Economist July 2022–March 2023

The Burning Glass Institute New York

• Led comprehensive research on labor market dynamics, focusing on influences of race, gender, and regional competitiveness, leveraging large datasets of job profiles and postings.

• Employed advanced analytical techniques including Bayesian updating, facial recognition, and economic modeling. Economist/Core Data Scientist July 2022–September 2022 Apple Beijing (Remote)

• Directed sales analytics projects focused on optimizing product sales in the stores.

• Implemented A/B testing, assessed price elasticity, and employed advanced analytic techniques to derive actionable insights. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: R, Python (eg. scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, PyTorch, NLTK, spaCy, plotly) Data Science & Statistics: A/B testing, Data science pipeline (cleaning, wrangling, visualization, modeling, interpreta- tion), Web scraping, APIs, Prompt engineering

RESEARCH PAPER

Foreign-born Directors and American Films

• Analyzes the e ect of foreign-born directors on the commercial and cinematic values of US-produced films

• Employs web scraping, APIs, and image-text extraction to identify director nationality and distributor pairings for films

• Uses prompt engineering with OpenAI to extract film themes Gender Gaps in Productivity and Labor Market Opportunities (With Maxine Lee)

• Studies the gender inequality in film directing jobs

• Follows the careers of film directors to estimate the gender gap in employment outcomes and its interaction with pro- ductivity

Education and the Journey to the Core (With Jesus Felipe and Aashish Mehta) Journal of Evolutionary Economics (R & R)

• Demonstrates that the primary role of education in industrial diversification is to facilitate the development of new in- dustries unrelated to a country’s existing industrial strengths

• Analyzes the e ect of education on the evolution of comparative advantage in 1,240 products from 49 low- and middle- income countries between 1995 and 2015

MEMBERSHIP

American Economic Association; American Statistical Association PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Presentations

• WEAI 98th Annual Conference, San Diego, California

(With Maxine Lee) 2023

• Development Economics Seminar (virtual), GRIPS, Japan

(With Jesus Felipe and Aashish Mehta) 2021

• Transworlding: Grads Works-in-Progress (WIP) Series, University of California, Santa Barbara 2021

• WEAI Virtual International Conference 2021

• MVEA 2021 Conference (accepted), Kansas City, MO 2021

• Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department Webinar, Asian Development Bank

(With Jesus Felipe and Aashish Mehta) 2020

Research Assistant

• Dr. Aashish Mehta (Economics) and Dr. Amit Ahuja (Political Science)

• Assisted with mathematical modeling of the relationship between economic growth and anti-corruption e ort in India Teaching Assistant

• Courses: Introduction to Econometrics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Economic Devel- opment; Probability and Statistics; Principles of Macroeconomics (Head TA)

• Collaborated with instructor and 10 other TAs to lead discussion sections, grade coursework, and answer 700+ students’ questions.

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