Mengqi Wei

Jinhe Center for Economic Research

Xi'an Jiaotong University

No. 28 Xianning West Road

Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

I am a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Quantitative Economics and Finance at the Jinhe Center for Economic Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU). Previously, I studied in the Special Class for the Gifted Young (pre-college) at Qian Xuesen College and the School of Mathematics and Statistics at XJTU.

Research Interests

AI and Innovation
Empirical Industrial Organization
Macroeconomics & Macro-Finance

news

Oct 20, 2026	Received the National Scholarship.
2026	Advanced to the semifinal round of the PKU Financial AI Agent Competition with Claim2Value.
Sep 15, 2026	Completed a macroeconomic research internship at CIB Research.
Jul 4, 2026	Completed sophomore year ranked first in the cohort (90.73/100).

selected publications

Working Paper
Adaptive Adjustment of Higher Education Majors Under LLM Shocks: Theoretical Modeling, Exposure Measurement, and Continuous DID Estimation

Mengqi Wei

Research in progress, advised by Xiaodong Chen and Xiaoliang Yang, 2026

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Extends the Acemoglu & Restrepo (2018) task framework to higher education supply. Constructs an occupational LLM exposure crosswalk for 889 undergraduate majors and uses records of major filings and provincial enrollment plans to study how higher education supply responds to AI exposure. The research is ongoing.
@article{wei2026llm, showresearch = {yes}, title = {Adaptive Adjustment of Higher Education Majors Under LLM Shocks: Theoretical Modeling, Exposure Measurement, and Continuous DID Estimation}, author = {Wei, Mengqi}, journal = {Research in progress, advised by Xiaodong Chen and Xiaoliang Yang}, year = {2026}, }
Project
Claim2Value: Financial AI Agent for Technical Claim Verification and Dynamic Valuation

Mengqi Wei and Team

PKU Financial AI Agent Competition (Semifinalist), 2026

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An AI agent pipeline designed for embodied AI and humanoid robotics supply chains. Extracts technical claims from disclosures, verifies specifications against industry benchmarks, and maps technical metrics into multi-scenario financial valuation models.
@article{wei2026claim2value, title = {Claim2Value: Financial AI Agent for Technical Claim Verification and Dynamic Valuation}, author = {Wei, Mengqi and Team}, journal = {PKU Financial AI Agent Competition (Semifinalist)}, year = {2026}, }