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Law and Economics Research

      Working Papers

Textualism, Memory, and History with LLMs 

[Draft: November 2024]

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Increasing Uptake of Tax Credits using LLMs with RAGs

[Draft: November 2024]

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An Intergenerational Biography of Descendants

[New York Times] [Boston Globe]

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      Published Papers

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Nowcasting and Big Data to Track Economic Activity in Sub-Saharan Africa

With Brandon Buell, Reda Cherif, Hyeon, Jiawen Tang, and Nils Wendt

International Monetary Fund, 2021

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      Research Affiliations and Fellowships

Harvard Law School Program for Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies, Daniel Fellow

Harvard Center for History and Economics, Graduate Student Fellow

Harvard Meta-Lab, The Dear Loneliness Archival Project
 

Poetry​​

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        [From 2019-2022, I published under my middle name Jiarong Zhang]

St. Petersburg, Florida, Delta Poetry Review (2024)

My Mother's American Reincarnation Myth, The Kenyon Review (2024) 

         [Runner-Up Prize for the 2024 Annual Poetry Context, judged by Pádraig Ó Tuama]

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Images from the Clockback Badlands, The American Oxonian (2023)

Child, I am a small animal in the godhead ravine, Wu, The Tupelo Quarterly (2021)

American Deathbed, BOAAT Journal (Featured in Palette Poetry and The Voracious Bibliophile) (2021)

Time Without Sleep, Flash Fiction Finalist, Black Warrior Review (2020)

Pantoum, The Harvard Advocate (2019)

Two fiction stories in Track//Four (Nominated for Best of the Net)

Parable, The Kenyon Review, (2017)

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Readings and Affiliations

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        Organized and Hosted Events

Poets in Conversation, A Poetry Reading Series at The Signet Society

     2024: Darius Afetat-Peckham, Emma De Lisle, Matt Miller, Talin Tahajian

     2023: Tawanda Mulalu, Zoe Hitzig, Imani Davis, Alex Braslavsky

Academy of American Poets College Award Series (2017 Intern)

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        Performances


Musical Prelude to the Inauguration (Performed with pianist Tony Yike Yang)​

Visual Arts and Documentary Photography​​

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From the ages of 12 to 18, I was an apprentice to my neighbor, the classically trained painter Robert K. Semans. While I am not actively pursuing a career in visual arts these days, I am deeply grateful to create and have created these short experimental films, documentary photography, and paintings. I was lucky to be generously awarded by organizations like YoungArts, Scholastic, and the Davidson Foundation, who provided funding and the chance for me to share my artwork in exhibitions at Carnegie Hall, the White House, The Hall of Nations at the Kennedy Center, and the RISD Museum.

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