Portrait of Isaac Qi

About Me

Welcome. I am a graduate student in the Animal Welfare Program at the University of British Columbia. I also hold a Master of Food and Resource Economics from UBC. My research lies at the intersection of animal welfare and economics.

For an interactive exploration of my research and personal journey, please visit my research dashboard.

Current Research

Automatic Milking & Individual Differences in Cows

What cows' responses to training reveal about how well each one adapts to automatic milking, using mixed-effects models in R.

Manuscript under review

Flood Resilience in the Lower Fraser

Mapping upstream flood-attenuating ecosystems and the downstream communities they protect across the Lower Fraser region through geospatial analysis.

Completed ยท Sustainability Scholar, Summer 2026

What I'm Up To

Program of Study

Animal Welfare Program
@ University of British Columbia

Reading Queue

Good Economics for Hard Times - Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo

page 69/378

Toward Mastery

“If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.” — Isaac Newton, Principia

1686.27 hrs
Economics
566.08 hrs
Animal Welfare
181.43 hrs
Mathematics
Date range: Jan 1, 2025 - Sep 18, 2026