Vol. II · No. 26 · Spring Issue
The Jialong Wang Review
New York ·
A personal index, cover story →

Capital,
carefully
considered.

I study how capital moves toward the climate transition — the mechanisms, the incentives, and the stories we tell about risk. Before Columbia, I read behavioral science and psychology at Duke and Duke Kunshan, where I learned to take human behavior seriously as a unit of analysis. On the good days I'm also a photographer.

Cover Story · 01
By J. Wang

A 200 megawatt wind farm, sculpted to the cent.

You build a model. You run ten thousand sensitivities. You still need to decide. The project I worked on last spring had a coverage ratio that drifted south by 0.04× every time I tightened the PPA floor — which is to say, the spreadsheet was telling me what I already suspected: no amount of tax equity structuring would out-argue a bad resource year.

This is what I like about the work. The numbers eventually run out of answers, and you are left, as always, with a judgment.

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Selected work

06 entries · 2022 – 2025
01 · SIPA Capstone · Team of sixJan – Apr 2026

Quantum Computing in the Global Energy Landscape

A four-month technoeconomic brief for Wood Mackenzie's research desk on where quantum computing will — and won't — actually move the needle for energy. Six applications (grid optimization, nuclear R&D, battery chemistry, enhanced solar, energy finance, quantum sensing) scored on a three-axis matrix. Two presentations at Wood Mackenzie, a dozen industry interviews, and one phantom client lead who only ever appeared on Zoom.

QuantumTechnoeconomicTeam of six
05 · Thesis · Political ScienceDec 2022 – May 2024

Framing the Crisis — Signature Work

Signature Work under Prof. Andrew Macdonald: 1,161 articles across four newspapers — central (People's Daily, Global Times) vs. Shanghai-local (Jiefang Daily, Xinmin Evening Post) — over the April–June 2022 lockdown. LDA topic modeling plus hand-coded content analysis. Finds central and local outlets running coordinated but stratified strategies — hard vs. soft propaganda — with local coverage pivoting to 91% "resilience" framing at the May lockdown peak.

LDAContent AnalysisChina

Writing

Notes on finance, politics, being
01

A capstone, in three conference rooms

In January none of us had seen a qubit. In April we were the ones explaining them.

Apr 2026 · 8 min
02

What a wind farm taught me about certainty

You build a model. You run 10,000 sensitivities. You still need to decide.

Apr 2026 · 7 min
03

Blended finance is a grammar, not a product

The deal's structure tells a story about who is trusted, who is guaranteed, and who absorbs the first loss.

Feb 2026 · 11 min
04

Notes on being a psychologist in a room of bankers

Discount rates are also a belief system.

Nov 2025 · 5 min
05

Reading Shanghai's lockdown through four newspapers

Ninety-one percent of the local papers' May coverage was framed around resilience. That's not an accident.

May 2024 · 9 min
A brief curriculum

The long way around.

Chronology
2024–now
Columbia SIPA
MPA (STEM) — Energy Finance & Sustainable Investment
Jan – Apr 2026
Wood Mackenzie × SIPA
Capstone — Quantum Computing in the Global Energy Landscape
Sep 2025 – Jan 2026
Columbia Climate School
TA — International Climate Finance (CLMTC 5052)
Jun – Aug 2025
Silver Leaf Partners
Sustainable Finance Summer Intern
2020–24
Duke Kunshan × Duke
B.S. Behavioral Science / Psychology · Cum Laude (dual degree with Duke Interdisc. Studies)
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
DKU Residence Life
Resident Assistant
Aug – Nov 2023
Control Risks
Intern — Crisis & Security Consulting
Feb – May 2023
Trivium China
Intern Analyst
Dec 2022 – May 2024
DKU · Prof. MacDonald
Signature Work — media discourse, Shanghai lockdown
May 2022 – Sep 2023
DKU · Prof. Gainous (SRS)
Summer Research Scholar — PR tweets + US Congress dog-whistling
Jun – Nov 2022
DKU · Prof. MacDonald
Research Assistant — Zero-COVID media sentiment
Jul – Aug 2022
CITIC Securities
Intern (Shenzhen)

Now

Updated this week · Apr 2026
The Value of a Whale — Adrienne Buller
A small R package for debt-sculpting sensitivity runs
Caroline Shaw — Partita for 8 Voices
Tennis. Slowly. With great enthusiasm.
Blended finance for emerging-market adaptation