Tianqi Li

Last Updated: May 6, 2024

Research Interests

• Boundary (Constrained) Estimation and Inference

• High-dimensional Econometrics

• Statistical Learning

Education

• Ph.D. Student in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the United States. (2019-Present)

  • Advisor: Prof. Jonathan B. Hill

  • Committee: Prof. Andrii Babii, Prof. Peter R. Hansen, Prof. Désiré Kédagni, Prof. Valentin Verdier

• Double Major in Economics and Mathematics, Wuhan University, China. (2015-2019)

  • Advisor: Prof. Jingbo Cui

Papers

• Hill, Jonathan B. and Tianqi Li, 2024, "A Bootstrapped Test of Covariance Stationarity Based on Walsh Functions", Bernoulli, forthcoming.

• Cui, Jingbo, Tianqi Li, and Zhenxuan Wang, 2023, "Research Collaboration beyond the Boundary: Evidence from University Patents in China", Journal of Regional Science, 63, 674-702. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12635.

• Tianqi Li, 2023, "Inference for Constrained High-dimensional Linear Model", Working Paper.

• Tianqi Li, 2022, "Regularized Extremum Estimators On the Boundary", Working Paper.

Academic Experience

• Speaker, Duke Financial Econometrics Lunch Group Seminar (Oct 2023)

• Speaker, 2020 NARSC Conference. (November 2020)

• Speaker, 2020 CES North America Virtual Conference. (August 2020)

• Visiting Student, IESR-HCEO Summer School and Best Paper Competition in Jinan University. (July 2019)

• Visiting Student, International Summer School in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. (July 2018)

• Teamwork, COMAP’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling. (Jan 2018)

Teaching Experience

• Undergraduate: Principles of Economics, Applied Statistics and Econometrics, Intermediate Econometrics

• Graduate: Econometric Theory

Awards

• Thomas F. Ferdinand Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (2023)

• Georges Lurcy Fellowship in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (2022)

• Second Class Scholarship (Top 15%), Wuhan University. (2018)

• Meritorious Winner, COMAP’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling. (2018)

• Second Class Scholarship (Top 15%), Wuhan University. (2017)

• Honorable Mention, COMAP’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling. (2016)

• Third Class Scholarship (Top 30%), Wuhan University. (2016)

• Freshmen Scholarship , Bluemoon Co., Ltd. (2016)

• Freshmen Scholarship (Top 10%), Wuhan University. (2015)