Work
Founding President at Shiku Metaverse Foundation (2022 - Present)
Founding President at SciEcon CIC (2021 - Present)
Partner at Bochsler Finance (2020 - Present)
Education
Ph.D. in Economics at ETH Zurich (2012 - 2016)
Advanced Doctoral Studies at Swiss National Bank Study Center (2014, 2016)
Master in Quantum Physics at ETH Zurich (2010 - 2012)
Bachelor in Science at UCBL (2008-2010)
Bachelor in Science at Wuhan University (2006-2008)
Selected Publication
Empirical Analysis of EIP-1559: Transaction Fees, Waiting Time, and Consensus Security
Deciphering Bitcoin Blockchain Data by Cohort Analysis
Harvard Dataverse
Versatile forward guidance: escaping or switching?
Forward Guidance Contracts
Cryptocurrency Valuation: An Explainable AI Approach
SoK: Blockchain Decentralization
Data and codes
Macroprudential Policy in the New Keynesian World
Teaching & Projects Supervision
A passion for exploring the unknowns with curious minds
Decentralized Finance (advising Dylan Paul, Oum Lahade, Malika Rawal, and Rhys Banerjee with Profs. Luyao Zhang, Fan Zhang, Kartik Nayak), Duke CS+ Summer Program, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Jun. - Aug. 2021
Algorithmic Stablecoin on the Internet Computer (advising Oli Chen and Gina Joerger with Profs. Olivier Marin and Luyao Zhang), NYU Shanghai, Spring 2021
Financial Technology, Cryptocurrency and AI (joint lectures), RMDS Lab, Summer 2020
Money, Blockchain and Decentralized Finance (Business school course & projects), ECNU, Spring 2020
Economics of Growth, Cycles and Policy (Master and PhD core course), ETH Zurich, Spring 2018
Economics of Growth, Cycles and Policy (Master and PhD core course), ETH Zurich, Spring 2016
Economics of Growth, Cycles and Policy (Master and PhD core course), ETH Zurich, Spring 2015
Economics of Innovation and Growth (Master and PhD elective course), ETH Zurich, Fall 2014
Invited Talks & Conferences
Duke CS+ & SciEcon Symposium “Decentralized Finance: Cryptocurrency and Blockchain on the Internet Computer,” Aug. 5, 2021 (panelist)
Algorithmic Monetary Policy, Econ 204: Intermediate Macroeconomics by Prof. Luyao Zhang, Duke Kunshan University, Dec. 10, 2020 (invited guest speaker)
WEAI 95th Annual Conference, Denver, U.S.A, Jun. 26–30, 2020 (online presentation)
11th Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation, 2018 (presenter)
4th RES Symposium of Junior Researchers, Royal Economic Society, 2018 (presenter)
1st RCEA Warsaw Money-Macro-Finance Conference, 2018 (presenter)
China International Conference in Macroeconomics, Tsinghua University, 2018 (presenter)
The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance 2018 (chair, presenter and discussant)
Research Seminars, Bank of Finland, 2017 (invited talk)
Fed St.Louis-JEDC-SCG-SNB-UniBern Conference, Swiss National Bank, 2017 (participant)
Workshop “Monetary Policy in Non-standard Times”, European Central Bank, 2017 (participant)
Annual Congress, European Economic Association, 2017 (presenter)
Annual Congress, German Economic Association, 2017 (presenter)
Journal of Monetary Economics and Swiss National Bank Conference, 2016 (participant)
9th Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation, 2016 (presenter)
Annual Congress, European Economic Association, 2016 (presenter)
Annual Congress, German Economic Association, 2016 (presenter)
Annual Congress, Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, 2016 (presenter)