Ph.D. Expected in 2026
Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2026
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fields of Interest
Computational Economics, Behavioral Machine Learning, Experimental and Development Economics
Job Market Paper
The Economic Behavior of AI Agents: Rationality and Reasoning in Large Language Models
Dissertation Title
Information, Incentives, and Decision-Making Across Economic Systems
References
Paul E. McNamara - Professor; Director of ADM Institute for the Prevention of Post harvest Loss, Director of AgReach; mcnamar1@illinois.edu
Deming Chen - Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, Co-Director of IIDAI Institute, Director of AMD Center of Excellence; dchen@illinois.edu
Yilan Xu - Associate Professor; yilanxu@illinois.edu
Contact Information
jingruj3@illinois.edu | (607) 379-1928