Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland College Park in 2005, her Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Maryland College Park in 2003, and her Bachelor’s degree from the Guanghua School of Management, Beijing University, in 2000. Her major research areas are macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor Economics, and econometrics. Currently she teaches the course of Intermediate Macroeconomics for the SEM undergraduate students and the double-major students, the course of the Business-cycle Research for the SEM undergraduate students, and the course of Macroeconomic Theory and Evidence course for the PhD students in economics.

Before joining Tsinghua SEM, Dr. Ouyang was a tenure-track assistant professor at the department of economics of the University of California Irvine. She has had extensive visiting experiences at various U.S. research institutions. She was a visiting scholar at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in December 2010, a consultant at the Brookings Institutes in November 2011, a visiting scholar at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia in November 2008, a visiting Scholar at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from June to September in 2007, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in May 2007.  In 2003 and 2004, she was a part-time consultant at the World Bank.

The research of Dr. Ouyang crosses the boundaries of Macroeconomics, microeconomics, and econometrics. She conducts both theoretical and empirical research. He sole-authored paper has been published at the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics. Her on-going research projects include studying the influence of the property-tax experiment in Shanghai and Chongqing on China housing prices and exploring the impact of the 2008 China Fiscal Stimulus Plan on the macroeconomic performance of China.

In 2008, Dr. Ouyang was awarded a scholarship for the career development of female economists sponsored by the American Economic Association and the National Science Foundation.  In 2009 she was included in “Who is Who in America”.