2011年2月，加拿大麦克马斯特大学李聪博士正式受聘我院助教授。李聪博士是我校"经济学创新平台"建设项目2011年（第七期）海外招聘计划中引进的优秀人才，其个人基本信息如下： Research Fields Health Economics, Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics Teaching Fields Health Economics, Econometrics, Econometrics and its application, Microeconomics, Public Economics Education _ Ph.D. Economics, McMaster University, Canada 2011 (expected) Ph.D. Dissertation: Essays in Health Economics and Robust Econometrics _ M.A. Economics, University of Guelph, Canada 2005 Master's Thesis: A Comparison between Flexible Parametric and Kernel Estimators _ B.Sc. Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Hebei Normal University, China 2004 Nationality China Research Papers _ Do Higher Cigarette Taxes Lead Smokers to Lose (Self) Control? (with P. DeCicca), 2010. job market paper _ A Smooth Nonparametric Conditional Density Test for Categorical Responses (with J. Racine), 2010. submitted to Econometric Theory _ Investigating the Price Sensitivity of Older Smokers (with P. DeCicca), 2010. Publication _ Nonparametric Regression with Weakly Dependent Data: The Discrete and Continuous Regressor Case (with D. Ouyang and J. Racine), 2009, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics,Vol. 21, No. 6, Pages 697-711 Work in Progress _ How Does Social Turmoil Affect Health: Evidence from the Children of the Cultural Revolution (with H. Zhong) 2009. _ Investigating the Effects of Relative Deprivation on Mental Health (with P. DeCicca) 2009. Other Academic Experience _ Teaching Assistant at McMaster University and University of Guelph, 2004 - 2010 Health Economics, Introductory Microeconomics, Econometrics I, Introduction to Statistics, Intermediate Macroeconomics II, Economic Statistics _ Research Assistant Professor Philip DeCicca, McMaster University 2007 - 2010 Professor Jeffrey Racine, McMaster University 2005 – 2007 Conference and Seminar Presentations _ Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association University of Toronto, Canada May 2009 _ Conference of the International Health Economics Association Beijing, China July 2009 _ Graduate Student Research Workshop McMaster University, Canada 2007, 2008, 2009 Fellowships and Awards _ University Graduate Bursary, University of Guelph 2004 _ Entrance Scholarship, McMaster University 2005 _ Graduate Research Scholarship, McMaster University 2006 - 2009 _ SEDAP Fellowship, McMaster University 2007 - 2009 _ SGS Scholarship, McMaster University 2006 – 2009 Professional Organizations Canadian Economics Association, International Health Economics Association Professional Development _ McMaster Graduate Workshop on Research Ethics, Office of Research Services McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 2005 _ " An Introduction to Statistical Computing in R" Workshop by John Fox, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 2006 _ CEA-CLSRN summer course"A Course in Panel Data Econometrics" by Guido Imbens and Jeffery Wooldbridge, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 2009 Skills _ Programs: Stata, R, Gauss, S-Plus, SPSS, LaTex, MS Office _ Languages: English (fluent), Chinese (native)