My name is Liyun Chen, or you may just call me Cloudly (any better suggestions?). I graduated from Shandong University and I’m now a master student in Economics at Barcelona GSE (UPF).
Academic
My major is Economics, and I minor in Mathematics. Additionally, I studied Computer (rich experience with software) by myself and am forced to be familiar with Biology (listened a lot) for some reasons.
My research interest mainly lies in economic issues related to Social Network (social learning, social distance, expectation, and information transmission). I am also interested in Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, etc.
Some researches have been done due to my curiosity. I have completed several research projects, spanning topics ranging from social networks, public health, information transmission, to mechanism design and antitrust analysis in industrial organization studies. For the list of papers, please see: http://www.cloudlychen.net/cv.html#media
To ensure me to write a paper in an efficient way, I am good at these computer skills:
Latex (LyX), R, Matlab, Stata, C/C++, equipped firefox +Zotero
Photoshop&Illustrator, PHP&MySQL+ HTML+ CSS+ JS, a little Flash and knowledge on Internet servers
You may find detailed information in my CV: http://www.cloudlychen.net/cv.html#CS
Work Experience
Now I am responsible for Cos.name (a online forum of statistics) as a broad manager (for economic statistics); in addition, I am writing a brochure about Econometrics and R, which is going to be published online for free.
Moreover, I have attended the 2nd Chinese R Conference and have given a presentation on econometrics in R (slides) in Renmin University of China; I am also the informal advisor for association of statistics communication in Central South University; regarding my teaching experience, I have been a teaching assistant for intermediate microeconomics for a semester.
During my college life, I have experienced different kinds of challenging jobs, including internship in China Unicom, journalist and photographer for university news agency, programmer and graphic designer for student online website, a theme designer for Maxthon (a free browser) and WordPress (blog system).
This Blog
Writing blog is my hobby, which is the way to share ideas with others throughout the world because of the Internet’s magic. It has been nearly 3 years since I first established my Chinese blog with top domain, and after realizing the necessity of a complete personal website, this blog is born.
Contact
If you would like to see more about my academic background, please visit: my homepage and my CV.
If you would like to contact with me, please send an email to:
CloudlyChen[at]gmail.com (here [at] means @).
May 9, 2010 at 12:37 am
Well done! I get to your website When I am searching for the do files. Keep fighting！
May 10, 2010 at 7:05 am
you are my good example!
May 14, 2010 at 9:48 am
我虽然没有你的学问高，但是我很喜欢你的英文博客。
May 14, 2010 at 9:49 am
Although I have not learned your high, but I like your English blog.
May 19, 2010 at 10:30 am
Have you already read both of my Chinese and English blogs? Thanks a lot!!!
This blog focus more on academic stuffs, so I don’t expect that you like it. Knowledge is easy to learn, so I believe that you will surpass me in the future!
May 16, 2011 at 11:36 am
it’s amazing you did all above in four years. I didn’t cover fields that much. I major in Automation, in SJTU. did you cover programming like data struc, OS, java, or just script and database as you’ve mentioned?
May 16, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Hi Josh,
I did a little of these things I mentioned above; however, I only needed them, e.g. C, HTML, JS, etc., for my work, so I didn’t go that further into these subjects. I learned data structure and DMS for the exam, so are some other skills. Therefore, for sure you know far more than me in either subjects. Maybe I shouldn’t put all of them here anymore – I haven’t really programmed for a while. After all, it is not my major, so I cannot put all my energy on them. The only reason that I keep them here is that if one day in the future I really need them, I would be able to pick them up quickly – at least, I have a basic idea with what’s going on.
Thank you so much for visiting my webpage, and also thank you for the advice.
May 17, 2011 at 8:58 am
Of course you should list them all. I’ve been in Barcelona when I was a exchg student in France. Amazing city indeed! with beach and futbol, El Barca. I love your blog as I am an amateur in Economic and love to go to Barcelona. keepmoving 加油
May 17, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Haha…my english blog is purely academic… nothing really interesting. Barcelona is nice, although I don’t really have time to enjoy it. That’s life – maybe I’ll miss Barcelona soon..
May 17, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Well, don’t push yourself too hard. you don’t have to rush too much, while ignoring current happiness and beautiful things around you.In china, we’re all overwhelmed by success, which is really not that important. I think in Spain and Europe, better to enjoy your life, sure it’s good to focus on academy, but you don’t have to be 牛逼 right now，right?
May 18, 2011 at 9:50 am
Thank you
Actually I’m writing my graduate thesis now, and that’s the only reason why I’m a little busy…Yes there is no hurry for life.
May 22, 2011 at 7:41 am
interesting to me actually ur blog, but I dont quite get along with annoying maths and models. does everything have to be maths model? I think it should always be a way to make it easier and friendly, as Mankiw did, wot do u think?
May 22, 2011 at 8:48 am
Hi! From my own view, economics is economics, and math is math. We utilize math models in economics only in order to make things more clear and logically. However, what dominates should still be the economic thoughts, rather than math techniques. Moreover, I believe that every economic model (at least the main idea) should be able to interpret solely by words, although necessary proofs should be done with math.
I think I have talked about this topic on my Chinese blog… You may want to have a look at it there instead…
June 22, 2011 at 11:30 am
看到杨小凯《经济学原理》开头就说数学问题 清楚多了