Research Interests
Comparative Political Economy, Causal Inference, Computational Methods.
Education
PhD in Political Science (Comparative Politics, American Politics, Political Methodology), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020.09-2025.05 (expected).
Master of Science in Applied Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2023.
Master of Arts in Political Economy, University of Waterloo, May 2015.
Courses Taught
PS 532-Quant Pol Analysis III, Department of Political Science (UIUC) 2023.09-2023.12 Teaching assistant
PS 531-Quant Pol Analysis II, Department of Political Science (UIUC) 2024.09-2025.05 Teaching assistant
PS 530-Quant Pol Analysis I, Department of Political Science (UIUC) 2023.09-2024.12 Teaching assistant
Interactive Web Mapping: https://jingl8.github.io/interactivewebmap/
Geographically Weighted Regression: https://jingl8.github.io/spatialanalysis
Recent Publications
Area under the ROC Curve has the most consistent evaluation for binary classification, PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316019.
More precise causal effect estimates: a propensity score-augmented approach to quantify uncertainty of ATE estimates (under review), https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11683
Context matters: re-assessing the skill endowment model prediction of globalization attitudes (under review)