Ziqian Song
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in CREATE: Aug 2025 – present
E-mail: ziqians2@illinois.edu
Ziqian Song is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the intersection of environmental change and human behavior, examining how both short-term extreme weather events and long-term climate change influence human outcomes and, in turn, how human activities affect the environment. His broader interests lie in environmental and development economics.
Deborah Ferreira
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in CREATE: Aug 2024 – present
E-mail: dlf4@illinois.edu
Deborah Ferreira is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has experience using econometric and computable general equilibrium methods to analyze the impacts of climate change on agriculture and its ramifications at the regional level. Her research interests include environmental and regional economics.
Dohyeong Choi
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in CREATE: Aug 2024 – present
E-mail: dc65@illinois.edu
Dohyeong Choi is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural and Consumer Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include climate change impacts and regional economics. He aims to uncover regional-specific implications of climate change impacts by using various quantitative methods including GWR, spatial models, and causal inference tools.
Chen Qing
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in CREATE: Aug 2024 – present
E-mail: chenq6@illinois.edu
Chen Qing is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has experience using non-market valuation methods to analyze the environmental behavior of households in developing countries. Her research interests include environmental economics and regional economics.
Hyungsun Yim
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in CREATE: Aug 2021 – present
E-mail: hyim2@illinois.edu
Hyungsun Yim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include regional economics and environmental economics. She focuses on quantifying externalities of environmental shocks across space and sectors using tools from trade economics and spatial econometrics. She is currently working on the climate change impact on the U.S. food supply chain.