Chenyu Hou
Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolChenyu Hou is an assistant professor and macroeconomist with eight years of research and teaching experience, currently based at Simon Fraser University after appointments at CUHK Shenzhen and a PhD from UBC. His work focuses on expectation formation and learning in macroeconomics and monetary economics, blending applied empirical work with computational methods. He specializes in using deep learning to uncover non-linear behaviors in agents’ expectations and to solve high-dimensional projection problems, bringing modern ML tools to classical macro questions. Trained at Fudan, UT Austin, and UBC, he combines rigorous theoretical grounding with hands-on quantitative skills and a keen interest in methodological innovation. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex model-driven insights into tractable empirical strategies that inform policy-relevant questions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Economics, Master of Science - MS, Economics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (5)
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sandbox2
python2
infrastructure1
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sevhou/sevhou.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jlperla/continuous_time_methods
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 14 comments in 8 months
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