Biography

I am a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a research assistant at Wharton Research Data Services.

Previously, I was a Data Science/Machine Learning intern at Snowflake. I worked on building RAG-based LLM chatbots with enriched multimedia output.

I am looking for full-time opportunities (RS, AS, or DS roles) starting in December 2025. Please feel free to reach out if you are hiring!

Interests
  • Mechanism Design
  • Game Theory
  • LLM Applications
Education

  • Ph.D. Student in Economics, Expected 2025

    University of Pennsylvania

  • M.Eng. Operations Research, 2020

    Cornell University

  • B.A. Mathematical Economics, 2019

    Fudan University

Research

Kevin He, Ran Shorrer, Mengjia Xia (2025). Human Misperception of Generative-AI Alignment: A Laboratory Experiment. ACM EC'25.

arXiv

Xian Wu, Mengjia Xia (2024). Information Acquisition in Fragmented Markets . WINE 2024.

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Contact

  • 133 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104