Steve · Zhiwen Wang 王志文

Hi, I'm Steve — welcome!

Steve (Zhiwen) Wang is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, advised by Daniel Berkowitz and Richard Van Weelden.

He previously completed an M.Res. in Management and an M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance at the National University of Singapore (President's Graduate Fellowship, 2015–2017).

Earlier, he earned a B.A. in Economics from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.

His research examines the long-run socioeconomic development of China — historical institutions, elite ideology, and political economy — using novel datasets, large language models, and quasi-experimental variation.

He also builds AI coding tooling on the side. His most recent project is AiPlus, a Rust toolchain for managing AI coding agents in real workflows (see Projects below).