Students

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.

Dian Jin

Graduate Student – Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science
Period in CREATE
: Jan 2024 – Present
E-maildian3@illinois.edu

Dian Jin is a graduate student majoring in Geographic Information Science (GIS) in the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science. His academic focus is on Spatial Analysis, Geo-visual Analytics, and webGIS development. He is currently working on a project developing a webGIS to showcase economic data on U.S. agricultural and food commodity trade flows.

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.

Taejun Mo

Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in CREATE: Aug 2021 – present
E-mail: taejunm2@illinois.edu

Taejun Mo is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural and Consumer Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds an M.S. degree in Economics with a focus on regional information.  His research interests are international trade, climate change, and spatial economics.

Youning Chen

Ph.D. Student – Department of Economics
Period in CREATE: Jan 2022 – Present
E-mail: youning2@illinois.edu

Youning Chen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on Empirical Industrial Organization. His research topics include externality, direct and indirect network effect in multi-sided market and complementary product market. He is now working on a project investigating the capacity of domestic trade to mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture.

Jiacheng Zhang

Graduate Student – Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science
Period in CREATE: Jan 2024 – Present
E-mail: jz148@illinois.edu

Jiacheng Zhang is a graduate student majoring in Geographic Information Science (GIS) in the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science. His academic focus is on Spatial Data Visualization and Geospatial Analysis. He is currently working on a project developing a webGIS to showcase economic data on U.S. agricultural and food commodity trade flows.