Teachers Retirement Decision Prediction by Support Vector Machine
The project I am working on is using Support Vector Machine to learn the pattern of teachers' retirement behaviors with an administrative panel data.
Effect of Electronic Benefit Transfer Program on Students' Achievement
By using a panel data to evaluate the effect of the implementation of EBT program on students' achievement. I employ a Difference-in-Difference method as the identification strategy with some description analysis.
State Borders and Beginning Teacher Job Search
Focus on the limits of the state-level teacher certification program for beginning teachers. I employ some techniques, like geospatial sampling, McFadden Randomization, and Poisson Approach with a mixed logit model on a federal level longitudinal survey data.
Hello! I'm Maurice
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I am Xiang 'Maurice' Li, a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. My research field is Economics of Education. I have a lot of experiences in both longitudinal survey data and administrative data. Some of my projects apply traditional economics methodology, like mixed logic model, or Diff-in-Diff model. The project I am working on is an application of the Support Vector Machine. For programming, I mainly use SAS, both in Windows and Linux, for my data cleaning and most of the regressions. I use Python for the Machine Learning project. And R is used to present my result.
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Xiang 'Maurice' Li
Ph.D. Candidate of Economics
Phone:
573-825-1528
Email:
Address:
Columbia, MO, 65201
EXPERIENCE
University of Missouri-Columbia
Coordinate all the different sections of the lecture, organize our TA's job (we have a big team of TAs), coordinate with all the resource and support facilities in the campus. In most of the case, I need to take care all the logistic problems and help students.
2015-Present
Super Head Teaching Assistant
2014
Head Teaching Assistant
University of Missouri-Columbia
Help students and hold office hour. Coordinate with Register Office, Disability Center, Athlete Association, Grading Center, etc.
University of Missouri-Columbia
Grade homework, hold office hour.
2013
Teaching Assistant
2011 - 2012
Risk Manager
Tianjin House Fund Management Center
Team member of the Credit Risk Management System Re-Design Project. Apply the VaR method to our portfolio induced by credit risk variation. Provide the value at risk to the committee of risk control.
2009 - 2011
Junior Risk Manager
Tianjin House Fund Management Center
Team member of the credit risk management team of the fund (nearly 5 billion US dollars, used in mortgage). Collect information of clients and report credit scores. Monitor the variation of the clients' credit and flag the potential default client.
EDUCATION
SKILLS
SAS - Proficient
R - Advanced
Python - Advanced
LaTex - Proficient
Microsoft Excel - Proficient
Mandarin - Mother Tongue
PROJECTS
University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Major: Economic
Specialists: Labor Economics, Education Economics
Committee: Michael Podgursky (Chair), Shawn Ni
GPA: 3.80/4
2012-Present
PhD
2005-2009
Undergraduate
NanKai University, China
Major: Finance
Specialists: Credit Risk Management
GPA: 3.64/4