Thomas Li

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania pursuing degrees in mathematical economics (B.A.) and data science (M.S.E). Alongside my studies, I conduct research in Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab. My work focuses on modeling human mobility datasets and understanding how data quality impacts the performance of clustering algorithms. Over the past two summers, I have worked as an economic research intern at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, analyzing the economic effects and global transmission of inflation uncertainty. I have previously been involved in decision-making research with the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, helping design intervention tournaments and field experiments aimed at improving vaccine uptake and student retention.

My research interests are in the development of econometric and statistical models, particularly for marketing applications. I am currently applying to Ph.D. programs.