Matthew Cheung is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Levin Lab and the Program for Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University.  Before starting graduate school, he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a Specialization in Computing.

Matthew is interested in the effects of human behavior, heterogeneity, and inequality on the dynamics of wealth in socioeconomic systems. This involves concepts from the social sciences (pro-sociality and discounting) and ecology (spatial scales and life history trade-offs), implemented into both macro- and micro-economic models. His current research includes dynastic modeling of intergenerational resource transfers under heterogeneous conditions, spatial dynamics of endogenous growth cycles, and social norms for collective action problems in the face of inequality.