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Jian Cao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University (2018) and has served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2019 to 2021. His research focuses on computational economics, econometric methodologies, and election integrity, with notable contributions to Bayesian analysis of voter registration databases and dynamic social media monitoring. Cao has also led interdisciplinary projects funded by the ERC (€2 million) analyzing conflict emergence patterns using multi-source datasets. His work bridges economics, political science, and data science, producing tools like the dsc R package for enhanced synthetic control methods and spike for Twitter monitoring infrastructure.
- Education:
- Ph.D. in Economics, Florida State University, 2018
- M.S. in Economics, Florida State University, 2016
- M.S. in Financial Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, 2014
- B.A. in Economics, Henan University of Economics & Law, 2010
- Research Highlights:
- Developed probabilistic matching methods for election auditing in California and Florida
- Deployed large-scale Twitter monitoring systems handling 4.5B+ tweets
- Advanced methods for multiple imputation in multi-scale datasets
- Grants & Awards: ERC Grant (€2M) for conflict emergence research
