“Research is formalized curiosity, it is poking and prying with a purpose.” - Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston (1891-1960) was an American anthropologist and writer known for her research and writing on slavery, race, folklore and the African-American experience.
Our Team
Haodong Wei
Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School
Editor
Yuchen Liang
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Editor/Art Director
Ziyao Chen
Shenzhen College of International Education
Editor
Changlin Liu
Chongqing BI Academy
Editor
Academic Committee
Peter J. Montiel
Dr. Peter J. Montiel is an economist known for his contributions to the field of development economics, particularly regarding macroeconomic policy and finance in developing countries. He is the Farleigh S. Dickinson Jr. ’41 Professor of Economics at Williams College, where he has been a faculty member since 1991.
Dr. Peter J. Montiel obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and has worked with several international organizations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, contributing his expertise to various projects and research in economic development.
Zuo Xuejing
Dr. Xuejing Zuo Graduated in 2018 with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston. Currently an Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor at the School of Economics, Fudan University, selected for the university-level talent program. Principal investigator of a project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and involved in major national research projects. The main research areas are experimental economics and labor economics, with over 8 years of field experiment experience. Research papers published in top-tier and authoritative international journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Review of Economics and Statistics, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Liu Yu
Professor Liu Yu graduated with a double major in Mathematics and Economics from the Experimental Class on Mathematical Economics at Wuhan University in 2007. He completed his master's degree at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2014. His current research focuses on the impact of tax systems on business growth and the allocation of resources across firms. He teaches three courses at Fudan University: Development Economics, China and Globalization, and the Chinese Tax System.
Jere R. Behrman
Professor Behrman from the University of Pennsylvania is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with an emphasis on developing economies. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources, project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems, and household behaviors.
He has published over 480 professional articles (primarily in leading general and field economic journals, but also in leading demographic, sociology, public health, nutritional, and biomedical journals) and 35 books. He has been a researcher with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Program, UNICEF, other international organizations, and various governments.
Ellen Langer
Dr. Ellen Langer is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University where she was the first woman to be tenured in the department. She has been described as the “mother of mindfulness” and has written extensively on the illusion of control, mindful aging, stress, decision-making, and health. She is the founder of The Langer Mindfulness Institute and consults with organizations to foster mindful leadership, innovation, strategy and work/life integration.
Ma Shufeng
Dr. Ma Shufeng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Educational Psychology at East China Normal University. She earned her Ph.D. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research centers on children’s cognitive, social and language development in classroom contexts, specifically as children participate in collaborative group or learn through interactive instructional methods.
Zhao Xin
Dr. Xin (Alice) Zhao is an Assistant Professor(Chenhui Scholar) in Department of Educational Psychology at East China Normal University . She is broadly interested in how children across cultures reason about and learn from the social world. Specifically, her current research centers around children's developing understanding of choice and constraints across cultures, as well as its implications on children's behavioral regulation and social evaluations. She received her B.S. from Tsinghua University in 2014 and then her PhD from Cornell University in 2019.
Geoff Bird
Dr. Geoff Bird began by studying imitation and its neural mechanisms while completing a PhD at University College London. After this, he moved to the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, also at UCL, to investigate various aspects of social cognition in adults with autism spectrum disorder.
In 2017, he moved to the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, wherehe hope to continue the research on social cognition, interoception, and related topics.
Our Alumni
Xianbang Wang
MIT
Tyllis Xu
Northwestern Univerity
Shannon Xiao
John Hopkins University
Li Xiangzhe
Duke University
Jinny Guo
Duke University
Yolande Yan
University of Pennsylvania
Jiaying Hou
Brown University
Heng Guanxiang
Columbia University
Jerry Bao
Cornell University
Jinyue Wang
University of Chicago
Dai Leran
University of California Berkeley
Yijia Zhu
Univeristy of Notre Dame
Jiarui Li
University of California Santa Barbara
Zike Qin
University of California - Irvine
Yutong Li
Vassar College
Tianyi Shen
University of Oxford
Gui Zhiyi
Cambridge University
