Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Department of Economics, University College London
Drayton House, 30 Gordon St, London WC1H 0AN
uctpzji@ucl.ac.uk · ziyu-jiang.com
Education
2021-present
PhD in Economics, University College London
Principal supervisor: Áureo de Paula
Secondary supervisor: Andrei Zeleneev
Principal supervisor: Áureo de Paula
Secondary supervisor: Andrei Zeleneev
2021
MRes in Economics, University College London
2020
MSc in Economics, University College London
2018
BA in Economics, University of Cambridge
Research fields
Econometrics; AI and Machine Learning Methods in Economics; NLP Methods and Unstructured Data; Factor Models.
Job market paper
Subjective Annotation Studies: Valid Inference and Annotation Design
Working papers
Identification and Estimation of Simultaneous Equation Models Using Higher-Order Cumulant Restrictions
Moment-Based Inference for Regression with Latent Dirichlet Covariates
Work in progress
Annotation Studies with a Fixed Panel of Annotators
Microfoundations for Topic Models
Honours, awards and scholarships
2022-present
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CeMMAP), PhD scholarship
2020
Dean's List for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, University College London
Conferences and seminars (including scheduled)
- 2026 Asia Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society
- 2026 Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontier Economics and AI+ML Meeting (ESIF-AIML)
- 2025 UCL-CeMMAP Ph.D. Econometrics Research Day
- UCL Econometrics Brownbag Seminar
Referee service
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Teaching experience
2021-2022; 2025-present
ECON0019, Econometrics, University College London, undergraduate
2022-2025
ECON0064, Econometrics, University College London, MSc
2021-2022
ECON0005, Statistical Methods in Economics, University College London
Other information
Languages
Mandarin (native), English (fluent)
Programming
MATLAB, Python, R
References
Principal supervisor
Secondary supervisor