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I grew up in Xuzhou, China. After high school, I attended college at the beautiful and mountainous Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I learned a lot of statistics, some finance, limited Cantonese, and had the opportunity to work with some wonderful mentors. Somewhat unusually, I also spent a summer selling hot dogs, corn, Dippin' Dots, and making gigantic cotton candies at the Schlitterbahn waterpark in New Braunfels, Texas. I then lived in Seattle for five years during the best era in Seahawks football and spent a summer with the microeconomics group at Microsoft Research as a research intern. Unbelievably, we won the 2016 Microsoft summer basketball league championship despite my presence on the team. I then moved to the East Coast for two years, enjoying pizza, snow, Gothic-style libraries, Metro-North, and lockdown in New Haven, before moving back to the West Coast in 2020.
When I'm not commuting down Highway 17 to campus, my free time is mostly split between local farmers' markets and keeping our two cats happy. I was a fan of the Houston Rockets and Seattle Seahawks and am now proudly a Golden State Warriors fan, but I'm still on the hunt for a football team to root for.