JIA ZHONG

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EDUCATION

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Agricultural and Applied Economics Expected: May 2021 Dissertation: “Alternative Fuel and Vehicles Choices in the U.S. Transportation Sector: Behavioral, Technological and Policy Determinants”

University of Tennessee, Knoxville M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics July 2015 Thesis: “Economic and Environmental Optimization in the Supply of Switchgrass in Tennessee” Chinese Academy of Sciences M.S. Environmental Engineering July 2013 Thesis: “Emission Characteristics of GHG and Ammonia from the Full Process of Sludge/Swine Manure Composting and Land Application of the Compost”

Nanjing Normal University B.S. Environmental Engineering May 2010 KEY EXPERTISE

- Environmental and Energy Economics; Public Economics; Operations Research; Life Cycle Assessment

- Programming: GAMS [+7 years], ArcGIS [+10 years], High Performance Computation facility [+3 years], Python [+2 year], R [+1 year], GREET [+3 years], VBA [+2 years], GaBi [+2 years], Stata [+1 year] RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Center for Advanced Bioenergy & Bioproducts Innovation, UIUC 2018 – Present Project Lead: Alternative fuel vehicle market modeling

- Constructed a behaviorally realistic vehicle choice model for vehicles of different powertrain

- Developed economic framework for social welfare optimization for vehicle, fuel, electricity, agricultural markets

- Completed the life cycle GHG emission analysis for the transportation sector

- Established the modeling of electricity market with supply and demand

- Processed the power generator unit data

Project Member: Economic and environmental costs assessment of the Renewable Fuel Standard

- Established and calibrated domestic and international markets of crude oil and petroleum fuel products

- Built the welfare analysis framework for liquid fuel industry and updated the emission factors from GREET

- Life cycle analysis for biofuel production supply chain of both carbon and nitrogen impact Project Member: Water quality assessment of economic policy on Mississippi River Basin

- Geo-processed spatial raster spatial data in ArcGIS python (10km, 30km resolution)

- Incorporated water pollution characteristics and developed watershed flow system Project Lead: Social efficiency implications analysis of Renewable Fuel Policy design

- Theoretically examined economic mechanism of the policy design features of the Renewable Fuel Standard Research Assistant, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, UIUC 2015 – 2018

- Processed big data for vehicle specification, vehicle registration, national household travel survey data, alternative fuel stations distribution in US

- Performed statistical analysis for transportation networks for alternative fuel vehicle and refueling station

- Initiated the modeling of US transportation submodule to include vehicle choice and fleet dynamics Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UTK 2013 – 2015

- Designed a spatial multi-objective optimization process for switchgrass feedstock supply-chain logistics systems Research Assistant, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2010 – 2013

- Accomplished a life cycle assessment of sludge/swine manure composting and land application TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, Environmental Economics (120+ students, in-person and online), UIUC 2020 Spring

- Campus-wide award Ranked as Excellent by students of two classes Instructor & Teaching Assistant, Natural Resource Economics (70+ students), UIUC 2019 Spring

- Campus-wide award Ranked as Excellent by students of three classes SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Zhong, J., Yu E., et al. 2018 Effect of land use change for bioenergy production on feedstock cost and water quality. Applied Energy, 210: 580-590 (SCI Q1 IF=8.44) Zhong, J., Yu E., et al. 2016 Analysis of environmental and economic tradeoffs in switchgrass supply chains for biofuel production. Energy, 107: 791–803 (SCI Q1 IF:4.292) Zhong, J., Wei, Y., et al. 2013. Greenhouse gas emission from the total process of swine manure composting and land application of compost. Atmospheric Environment, 81, 348-355 (SCI Q1 IF: 3.797) Zhong, J., Wei, Y., et al. 2013. Emissions of greenhouse gas and ammonia from the total process of sewage Sludge Composting and Land Application of Compost. Environmental Science, 34(11):4186-94. (Chinese) WORKING PAPERS

Zhong, J., M. Khanna “Assessing the Social Efficiency Implications of Renewable Fuel Policy Design in the United States” (Job Market Paper)

K Ferin, L Chen, J Zhong, M Khanna, and A VanLoocke “Evaluating the Impact of Economic Policies on Water Quality within the Mississippi River Basin” Environmental Science & Technology (R&R) L Chen, D Debnath, J Zhong, L Chen, M Khanna, “Economic and Environmental Costs of the Renewable Fuel Standard” Environmental Research Letters (submitted) Zhong, J., M. Khanna “When Do Consumers Choose Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Low Carbon Fuel?” Zhong, J., M. Khanna “Decarbonization of U.S. Transportation and Implication of Policy Mix” CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

“Alternative Fuel Synergy on Greener Transportation”

- Program of Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 2020, UIUC

“Incomplete Pass-Through of RIN Incentives to E85 due to the Design of the RFS”

- AERE Annual Summer Conference, 2020,Virtual (poster accepted)

“Doomed by design: structural implications of the Renewable Fuel Standard for E85 demand”

- Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop Program, 2019, UIUC (Poster)

- 1st US-China Young Professional Forum, 2019, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

- Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2019 Annual Meeting, Atlanta.

- Program of Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 2018, UIUC

“Going beyond the blend wall: policy incentives for fuel consumers to supplement the Renewable Fuel Standard”

- Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2017 Annual Meeting, Chicago

- Program of Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 2017, UIUC

“Grey water footprint & economic tradeoff analysis of switchgrass supply chain: a case study of west Tennessee”

- Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2015 Annual Meeting, San Francisco (Poster)

“Environmental and economic trade-offs of switchgrass supply chain for biofuel in Tennessee”

- Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA), 2015, Atlanta AWARDS AND HONORS

Dorothy Fay Dunn and Leah Dunn Linse Fellowship, 2016, U of Illinois Outstanding MS student of graduate program, 2015, U of Tennessee Outstanding Student, 2013, Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Student, 2010, Nanjing Normal University. (0.03%)

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