· Led weekly Stata training sessions and graded problem sets for the Advanced Regression/Program Evaluation Methods course.

· Use both machine-learning and econometrics methods to predict student outcomes and analyze heterogeneous treatment effects based on data from the Conditions for Learning survey, administered in schools across the United States.

· Communicate research results through data products including published reports, and static, animated, or interactive data visualizations backed by R, R Shiny applications, or D3.JS.

· Contribute to the development of EdSurvey – an R package for analyzing education surveys and assessments data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

· Manage data updates to and provide trainings about the International Data Explorer (IDE), a web-based tool for analyzing data from large-scale international studies.

· Developed an economic growth strategy for the state of Rhode Island in Brookings’ innovation economy team; collected and synthesized data on Rhode Island’s performances, ranging from the labor market, education, to public transit systems.

· Conducted individual research project analyzing collaborative R&D expenditures between business and academia sector in the US; presented the project to Brookings scholars and researchers; drafted findings into a blog post published on Brookings’ website.

· Developed quantitative analyses using Stata and R on the effectiveness of the Tulsa Public School’s Pre-K program.

· Coordinated data management, including geocoding, merging and cleaning datasets, and developing codebook for the research dataset.

· Developed and maintained the Center’s website materials about researches on US-China relationships; managed social media account (Weibo) to promote the Center’s website and recent publications of scholars.

· Managed the program implementation in China in 2012; raised CNY 30,000 (USD 4,800) in funding from corporate and individual donors; established successful working partnerships with community educational leaders; recruited and trained teacher volunteers.

· Cooperated with American volunteers to teach English to nearly 200 students aged between 9 and 15 in a village school in JiShui.