Research
Affiliations
Computational Social Science Lab at Penn, Research Assistant (2023–)
Dr. Francis Diebold Econometrics Reading Group (2024)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Economic Research Intern (2023, 2024)
Behavior Change for Good Initiative, Research Assistant (2022–2023)
Awards and Honors
Phi Beta Kappa (2025, Penn)
Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most distinguished academic honor society in the United States.
Shanbaum Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Economics (2025, Penn)
Awarded to the outstanding graduating Economics major with exceptional academic performance and excellence in research.
Simon Kuznets Fellowship Award in Economics (2024, Penn)
Awarded to 3 juniors (out of ~200) with outstanding potential in economics, upon recommendation of the Penn economics faculty.
Articles
“The Global Transmission of Inflation Uncertainty.”
Thomas H. Li, Juan M. Londono, and Sai Ma. FEDS Notes (2025).
Working Papers
“Luxury Exclusivity in the Digital Age: A Conjoint Analysis.”
Thomas H. Li.
Senior thesis, advised by Jere Behrman and Z. John Zhang.
“A Synthetic Dataset and Sandbox Environment for Analysis of Pre-processing Algorithms for GPS Human Mobility Data.”
Thomas H. Li and Francisco Barreras. arXiv preprint.
“Trajectory Mining in the Face of High Sparsity.”
Francisco Barreras, Thomas H. Li, Duncan J. Watts.
Conference Presentations
“Trajectory Data Mining in Highly Sparse Location Datasets.”
Thomas H. Li, Francisco Barreras, and Duncan J. Watts. International Conference on Computational Social Science 2024. Parallel Talk.
Research Assistance
“Global Inflation Uncertainty and its Economic Effects.”
Juan M. Londono, Sai Ma, and Beth Anne Wilson. FEDS Notes (2023).
“Megastudy Shows that Reminders Boost Vaccination but Adding Free Rides Does Not.”
Katherine L. Milkman, Sean F. Ellis, Dena M. Gromet, Youngwoo Jung, Alex S. Luscher, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Madeline K. Paxson, Ramon A. Silvera Zumaran, Robert Kuan, Ron Berman, Neil A. Lewis Jr, John A. List, Mitesh S. Patel, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp, Maryann V. Beauvais, Jonathon K. Bellows, Cheryl A. Marandola, and Angela L. Duckworth. Nature (2024).