Research
Affiliations
Stanford GSB Quantitative Marketing, PhD Student (2025–)
Computational Social Science Lab at Penn, Research Assistant (2023–2025)
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 two juniors 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
“The Exclusivity Paradox: Optimizing Online Strategies for Luxury Brands.”
Thomas H. Li, Raghuram Iyengar, and Z. John Zhang. Under Review.
“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.
Conference Presentations
“A Synthetic Dataset and Framework to Test Pre-processing Algorithms of Human Mobility Data.”
Thomas H. Li, Francisco Barreras, and Duncan J. Watts. 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (2025). Poster.
“Trajectory Data Mining in Highly Sparse Location Datasets.”
Thomas H. Li, Francisco Barreras, and Duncan J. Watts. 10th 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).