Summary
Pei Zhou is a food economist and applied economist with 11 years of research experience, currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University focusing on the intersection of food marketing, consumer health, and policy. She combines rigorous reduced-form and structural economic methods—such as random coefficient discrete choice and Bayesian learning models—with large household- and market-level datasets, lab experiments, and self-collected web-scraped data, often leveraging supercomputing resources. Proficient in Stata, R, MATLAB, Python, SQL and GAMS, she investigates topics from online grocery behavior and food reformulation to the economics of plant-based foods and food safety, aiming to improve diet quality and consumer well-being. Trained at Penn State (PhD) and Renmin University, she blends international academic perspectives with hands-on empirical skills and a knack for turning complex, noisy datasets into policy-relevant insights.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Agricultural Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Agricultural Economics at Penn State University
Master's Degree, Agricultural Economics, Master's Degree, Agricultural Economics at Renmin University of China
Bachelor's Degree, Agronomy and Crop Science, Bachelor's Degree, Agronomy and Crop Science at Huazhong Agricultural University