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The part that doesn't fit in a table.
A high-school student in Shanghai. Most of what is on this site began as something I wanted the answer to on a weekend, and then refused to leave me alone.
Portrait
PL. II — SHANGHAI, 2026
EDUCATION
Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School, 2023 — expected 2028. Weighted GPA 4.73/4.0, top 10% of class · SAT 1550 · TOEFL 118.
LEADERSHIP
Vice President of the Treasury Department — the bazaar, the lottery, and school-wide budget allocation. Captain of Team China-1 at the International Economics Olympiad. Associate Secretary at the Asian Community Center U30, supporting youth programming funded by the NYC Council and the U.S. Congress.
TOOLBOX
Python, deep learning, statistical modelling, full-stack development, retrieval-augmented generation, signal processing · econometrics, causal inference, computational social science.
LANGUAGES
Chinese (native) · English.
The treasury job is the one that changed how I work. Allocating a school budget means telling people no, in writing, with a reason they can check — which turns out to be most of what running a nonprofit's finances involves.
ROWING
HEMA — HISTORICAL FENCING
LEGO DESIGN
WORLD LITERATURE
PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY
POLITICS
THE RECORD
Every award, with its year.
| Award | Result | Year |
|---|---|---|
| International Economics Olympiad | Gold · #9 globally · 176.76 | 2026 |
| International Economics Olympiad — Business Case | Silver · 2nd globally, as captain | 2026 |
| Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair | Finalist | 2026 |
| S.T. Yau Science Award, Tsinghua | Gold | 2025 |
| Diamond Challenge | Global Finalist | — |
| British Physics Olympiad | Top Gold | Grade 9 |
| Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Gold Key ×3 | — |
| Harvard World Schools Debate Open | Quarterfinalist | 2026 |
| HackHarvard | First high-school team admitted | 2025 |
| HackMIT | Admitted — takes place later this year | 2026 |
The two research programmes behind several of these are written up in full under 语 Language and 济 Economy.