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Dr. Jing Yi is a Professor in the College of Economics and Management at China Agricultural University (CAU) and an Honorary Associate/Fellow in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research centers on agricultural finance and economics, with a particular emphasis on agri-food value chains and their environmental implications. She also works on information processing, big data, and AI.

Before joining CAU, Dr. Yi was a Faculty Associate in the Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics at UW–Madison. Before that, she was a Faculty Research Associate in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Her work there spanned research, extension, and teaching in agricultural finance, risk management, food system sustainability, machine learning, and policy analysis. Earlier in her career, she was a research assistant at the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University and at Auburn University.

Dr. Yi holds a bachelor's degree in Crop and Soil Science from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University.