Shao-Yu Jheng is a predoctoral fellow in the department of economics at Harvard University supporting Melissa Dell with research related to political economy and economic development in historical Japan. He is jointly developing new deep learning methods, from multi-modal record linkage to graph neural networks, to unlock the potential of large-scale Japanese historical archival data, which can be used to answer big questions about the East Asian miracle.
Jheng received his M.A. in economics, and his B.A. in foreign languages and literatures from National Taiwan University
At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Jheng chairs the Seminar on European Development in a Historical Perspective.
