This letter recommends Yuan Yi Chen for an internship position. The writer has known Yuan Yi for over a year as her research assistant. Yuan Yi is described as brilliant, creative, highly motivated, hard-working, and responsible. She is able to independently propose research ideas and make significant progress on schedule. Yuan Yi also has outstanding quantitative and programming skills to estimate complex econometric models. The writer strongly recommends Yuan Yi for the internship opportunity and believes she will contribute greatly to the company.

1. Recommendation Letter Yuan Yi Chen
To whom it may concern:
I write this letter of recommendation on behalf of Ms. Yuan Yi Chen for an internship
position in your company. I have known Yuan Yi for one year and two months since she became
my full-time research assistant of an academic research project in July 2015. During this period,
I meet her five days a week to discuss research ideas and progress of research project. Hence, I am
very confident that I know Yuan Yi very well enough to write this letter of recommendation to
support her application.
Based on my personal observations, Yuan Yi is a brilliant, creative, highly motivated,
hard-working, and responsible young lady. She has a critical mindset toward the research project,
is able to propose interesting research ideas, works very independently and efficiently without
much guidance, and, more importantly, is very responsible for making significant progress on
schedule. Moreover, I am really impressive by her outstanding quantitative and programming
skills. Yuan Yi is capable of using difficult statistical softwares, such as EViews, Stata, and
MATLAB, to estimate complex econometric models, e.g., vector autoregression models and
threshold vector autoregression models. So far, I am more than satisfied with her excellent
performance as a research assistant. Based on her performance, I would like to regard Ms. Yuan Yi
Chen as one of the top 2% students among 2200 undergraduate students I have ever taught at
National Chengchi University in the last seventeen years.
Since the internship opportunity offered by your company will be greatly beneficial to this
determined young lady for her future professional career and I believe that the pleasant and
precious characteristics and outstanding working experience of Yuan Yi will definitely contribute
greatly to your company, I therefore enthusiastically and strongly recommend Ms. Yuan Yi Chen
to you without any reservation. If you still need information about her, please do not hesitate to
contact me.
Sincerely Yours,
Weiyu Kuo, Ph.D. (Cantab)
Professor
Department of International Business
National Chengchi University
Email: wkuo@nccu.edu.tw