CV

Curriculum vitae of Mengqi Wei.

English CV (PDF) 中文简历 (PDF)

Education

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Jinhe Center for Economic Research
Quantitative Economics and Finance · 2025.09 – Present
Sophomore GPA: 90.73 / 100 · Rank: 1 / 22

Xi'an Jiaotong University, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematics · 2024.09 – 2025.07
Freshman GPA: 87.81 / 100 · Rank: 3 / 109

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Qian Xuesen College
Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY, Pre-College) · 2022.09 – 2024.07
Pre-College GPA: 87.92 / 100 · Rank: 54 / 193

Research interests

  • Empirical Industrial Organization
  • Macro-Finance
  • AI and Innovation

Research and project experience

Adaptive Adjustment of Higher Education Majors Under LLM Shocks
2026.02 -- Present
Research Training (Advised by Prof. Xiaodong Chen and Prof. Xiaoliang Yang) · Principal Investigator

Extended the Acemoglu & Restrepo (2018) task framework to higher education supply; constructed an occupational LLM exposure crosswalk for 889 undergraduate majors. The ongoing project uses provincial enrollment records to study responses to AI exposure.

Claim2Value: Financial AI Agent for Technical Claim Verification and Dynamic Valuation
2026.08 -- 2026.10
PKU Financial AI Agent Competition · Project Lead

Built an end-to-end agent pipeline for 11 core listed firms in humanoid robotics/embodied AI. Benchmarked 51 technical claims, modeling transmission mechanisms from technical specifications to productivity, pricing, and margin structures within three-scenario dynamic valuation models.

Perceived Age Discrimination, Psychological Coping, and Policy Demands of Job Seekers Aged 35+
2025.12 -- 2026.04
National "Challenge Cup" Academic Competition · Core Researcher

Cleaned primary survey microdata, extracted behavioral coping archetypes via Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and utilized quantile regressions to test asymmetric penalties across wage distributions.

Heterogeneous Energy Price Pass-Through Across Consumption Structures Under Geopolitical Shocks
2026.04 -- Present
Undergraduate Innovation Research Program · Core Researcher

Compiled cross-country macroeconomic time-series panels to evaluate supply-side pass-through elasticities under international supply shocks.

Professional experience

CIB Research (兴业经济研究咨询股份有限公司), Macro Market Department
Macroeconomic Research Intern · 2026.07 – 2026.09
  • Tracked high-frequency macroeconomic data and analyzed structural features of China's "K-shaped" economic recovery.
  • Applied Ray Dalio's debt cycle framework to analyze property market deleveraging and structural cycles.
  • Monitored China-Europe trade flows and EU regulatory policies.

Coursework and academic preparation

Core Economics & Finance: Intermediate Macroeconomics (100), Principles of Accounting (96), Intermediate Microeconomics (95), Principles of Finance (94), Financial Markets & Institutions (92).

Mathematics & Statistics: Advanced Algebra & Analytic Geometry II (93), Applied Statistics (93), Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics (92), University Physics (90), Mathematical Analysis (90/86).

Advanced & Self-Study: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Industrial Organization, Operations Research, Econometrics.

Honors and awards

  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education · 2025–2026
  • Outstanding Student, Xi'an Jiaotong University · 2024–2026
  • First-Class Academic Scholarship, Xi'an Jiaotong University · 2024–2025
  • Statistical Modeling Competition, Shaanxi Provincial First Prize · 2026
  • Digital Business Simulation Sandbox Competition, National Third Prize · 2026

Skills and languages

Coding & Econometric Tools: Stata, Python, LaTeX, C (Basic proficiency)

AI-Native Workflows: Comfortable driving AI-assisted research and engineering workflows

Languages: Chinese, English (CET-6: 602)