College of Mechanical & Vehicle Engineering

Hunan University

Email: kaifeng_hnu@126.com

07/2012-Present, Professor, College of Mechanical & Vehicle Engineering,

              Hunan University

09/2010-07/2012, Assistant Professor, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory,

              Tokyo Institute of Technology

04/2009-08/2010, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS),

              The University of Tokyo

04/2007-03/2009, Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

               The University of Tokyo

Associate editor, STLE Tribology Transactions;

Editorial board, International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing;

Organizer & Co-Session Chair, ASME Turbo Expo;

Vice-Chairman, National committee on gas lubrication and dry gas seals;

Executive board, Society for vibration engineering, rotor dynamics;

10/2006-09/2009, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

09/2003-07/2006, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

09/1999-07/2003, B.S., Mechanical Engineering; Computer Science and Technology.

                                          Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Analysis, design and testing of gas foil bearings; Rotordynamics;

Gas Levitation Technology for Ultra-High Speed and Ultra-High Precision Equipment;

Vibration and noise of gear system; Micro Gas Turbines;

Development of oil-free Turbocharger;

• 2012, Selected for “One Thousand Young Talents Program”, Government of China.

• 2014, Best paper awards at The 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing.

• 2013, Selected for “Young Talents for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Hunan ”

• 2010, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

• 2009, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship Program

• 2008, Atsumi International Scholarship

• 2008, Academic Research Grant Program (National), The University of Tokyo

• 2008, Research Support Program for PhD Candidate, The University of Tokyo

• 2008, Highest Award of Project Based Learning (PBL) Contest in The 21st Century COE Program, Mechanical Systems Innovation, The University of Tokyo

• 2007, Scholarship of Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)

• 2003, 2004, 2005, First Class Scholarship, 2005, "Pengkang" Scholarship (top 1%), Xi'an Jiaotong University

• 2000, 2001, 2002, Outstanding Student Honors, 2001, "Guanghua" Scholarship, 2000, Second Prize in Research Paper Contest, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

“The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java” (with Ben Olken) Forthcoming Review of Economic Studies

“The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico” (with Benjamin Feigenberg and Kensuke Teshima). Forthcoming AER: Insights

“The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam” (with Nathaniel Lane and Pablo Querubin). Forthcoming Econometrica.

“Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies.” (with Pablo Querubin). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133 (2), 2018, 701-764.

“Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War” American Economic Review, 105 (6), 2015, 1738-1779.

"What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature" (with Ben Jones and Ben Olken). Journal of Economic Literature, 52(3), September 2014, pp. 740-798.

“Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century” (with Ben Jones and Ben Olken). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4(3), July 2012, pp. 66- 95.

“The Persistent Effects of Peru’s Mining Mita.” Econometrica 78(6), 2010: pp. 1863–1903. Translated and reprinted in Apnutes 68, 2011: pp. 209-263.

“Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries” (with Daron Acemoglu). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2(1), January 2010: pp. 169–188.

“Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates” (with Ben Jones and Ben Olken). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 99 (2), May 2009: pp. 198-204.

Professional Activities

Editorial Board, Econometrica; Foreign Editor, Review of Economic Studies; Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association; Editorial Board, Explorations in Economic History