Curriculum Vitae

Junliang (Jason) Ye · Washington University in St. Louis · jason.ye@wustl.edu

Junliang (Jason) Ye

Washington University in St. Louis · jason.ye@wustl.edu · jasonjye.com

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Education

A.B., Mathematics & Economics and Political Science · Expected May 2028

Specialization in financial economics; subfields in American and international politics; honors track.
Dean's List, all semesters.

Pembroke Cambridge Summer Programme · Summer 2025

Economics of Growth and Development; The Political Economy of Natural Resource Management.

Environmental & Energy Economics Research Training Program · Charlottesville, VA · May – July 2026

Member of the 2026 cohort of six interns in the ten-week program, hosted by the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy with the Department of Economics, supported by the Sloan Foundation, and directed by Jay Shimshack and Jonathan Colmer.
Completed the program's research bootcamp in data management, reproducible coding, and the responsible use of AI tools in research.
Worked on the RCRA Data Infrastructure Project, building documented, analysis-ready data from the Environmental Protection Agency's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) records on hazardous waste.

Research Assistant to Shiran Victoria Shen · St. Louis, MO · February 2026 – present

Coded petition texts to provide independent human validation of a text-classification pipeline in a climate politics project, applying a multi-label scheme for climate relevance and adaptation.
Reviewed official reports, Ministry of Emergency Management materials, and news coverage to recover missing information on major climate disasters in China, 2021–2023.
Audited and cleaned event- and prefecture-level disaster records compiled from EM-DAT, government reports, and news sources.

Research Assistant to Peng Peng and Christy Qiu · St. Louis, MO · May 2025 – present

Coded leadership transitions in ten countries, 1946–2024, as ruler-designated or openly contested, drawing on qualitative and primary sources.
Digitized a historical dataset from a printed source into structured form.

Analyst, Algo and Energy sector teams · September 2024 – December 2025

Analyzed prediction markets on the 2024 U.S. presidential election and how correlated events affect contract pricing.
Contributed to an equity pitch on Uber Technologies and to market analysis informing sector-rotation decisions.

Student Intern · Beijing · Summer 2023

Interviewed residents and center directors, and produced two episodes of The Groundwork, a documentary on grassroots politics in urban Chinese communities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Heart for the Unhoused: Law, Public Policy, and Housing Database Project, January 2025 – present.
Washington University Student Sustainability Board.
Undergraduate Economics Association, Washington University.

Economics: Introduction to Econometrics; Applied Econometrics; Intermediate Microeconomic Theory; Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory; Decision Under Risk and Time.
Mathematics and statistics: Introduction to Analysis; Linear Algebra; Modern Algebra; Probability; Introduction to Fourier Series and Integrals.
Politics and environment: Research Design and Methods; Data Science for Politics; Introduction to Environmental Policy; Introduction to Environmental Law; The Politics of Climate Adaptation; Energy Politics; Social Choice Theory; Game Theory and Strategies of Conflict; Politics of International Trade; Introduction to Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science.

Programming and software: R (proficient), Python (intermediate), GIS (beginner), Microsoft Excel.
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (native), English (native), Italian and Spanish (limited working proficiency).