Shilei Luo

Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
📫 l.shilei@wustl.edu | 📞 +1 314-857-9717
St Louis, MO, 63130
Last updated: May 10, 2025

Education

• Olin Business School – Washington University in St. Louis
  Ph.D. Candidate in Quantitative Marketing
  2022 – Present
• Guanghua School of Management – Peking University
  Bachelor in Economics
  2018 – 2022

Research Interests

Online Platforms, Causal Inference, Social Media

Work in Progress

• The Power of Pay: The Amplified Long-Term Effects of Wage Changes in the Gig Economy
  with Xinyu Cao and Dennis J. Zhang, Working paper
• How Content Nudges Influence Late-Night Usage on Short Video Platform
  with Song Yao and Dennis J. Zhang, Work in Progress
• Unexpected Consequences in Recommender-Based Content Moderation
  with Meng Liu, Cheng Lu, Xiang Hui, and Dennis J. Zhang, Work in Progress

Conference Presentations

• The Power of Pay: The Amplified Long-Term Effects of Wage Changes in the Gig Economy
  INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
  2024

Teaching Experience

• Guest Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
  Data Analysis for Brand Management (Master/MBA) – Spring 2025
• Teaching Assistant, Washington University in St. Louis
  Data Analysis for Brand Management (Master/MBA) – Spring 2025
  Marketing Strategy (Master/MBA) – Fall 2024
  Consumer Analytics (Master) – Fall 2023

Industry Experience

• Research Intern, Kwai Inc.
  June 2023 – Present

Skills

• Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent)
• Technical: Python, Julia, Stata, R (Fluent); experience with Matlab and C++