Team
Faculty Members

Jörg Stoye
Professor of Economics
Jörg Stoye is the Ta-Chung Liu Professor of Economics at Cornell University.
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José Luis Montiel Olea
Associate Professor of Economics
José Luis Montiel Olea is an Associate Professor of Economics at Cornell University.
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Chen Qiu
Assistant Professor of Economics
Chen Qiu is an Assistant Professor in the Cornell Economics Department. He is an econometrician with research interests in statistical decision theory, policy learning and causal inference.
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Graduate Students

Serena Leung
Cornell Economics PhD Candidate
Serena is a PhD student in Economics at Cornell University. Her research interests include statistical decision theory, causal inference, and Bayesian statistics.

Brenda Prallon
Cornell Economics PhD Candidate
Brenda Prallon is an Economics PhD Candidate working on Econometrics, theoretical and applied. She is interested in evidence aggregation and robustness analysis, using tools from causal inference, partial identification and statistical decision theory to help researchers achieve more credible answers to policy-relevant questions.

Yiwei Sun
Cornell Economics PhD Candidate
Yiwei is a PhD candidate in Economics at Cornell University working in econometrics, with a focus on causal inference and statistical decision theory. Her ongoing research studies how to draw credible conclusions from data and make optimal decisions under uncertainty.

Zhuoheng Xu
Cornell Economics PhD Candidate
Zhuoheng is a PhD candidate in Economics at Cornell University.

Haomin Yu
Cornell Economics PhD Candidate
Haomin Yu is a PhD student in Economics at Cornell University. His research focuses on decision theory, causal inference, and machine learning, with applications in applied economics and policy evaluation.

Shunqi Zhang
Cornell Economics PhD Candidate
Shunqi is a 3rd-year PhD student in Cornell Economics Department. His research interests are Decision Theory, Causal Inference, Econometrics and Statistics.
Undergraduate Students

William Pan
Mathematics and Economics, ‘27
William Pan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Mathematics and Economics. He is interested exploring mathematical problems in decision theory and its associated applications.

Elliott Serna
Public Policy, '27
Elliott Serna is a junior in the Brooks School of Public Policy, where he is pursuing a B.S. in Public Policy. With interests in bureaucratic political economy, public administration, machine learning, and causal inference, he plans to pursue a Ph.D. in the social sciences after completing his undergraduate studies.
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Caroline Smiltneks
Economics and Statistics, '26
Caroline is a fourth-year undergraduate studying economics and statistics. In addition to her work in the Econometrics Lab, she conducts research at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management on global macroeconomics, digital currencies, and financial systems.

Henry Tan
Statistics and Economics, ‘27
Henry is passionate about econometrics and how data reflects real-world behavior. He enjoys using statistical techniques and economic reasoning to analyze data and model risk for better decisions. Outside the lab, he researches labor economics, enjoys TA-ing for his statistics class, and likes working on cool data analysis projects!
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