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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Irvine, California, United States

• Simulated general-equilibrium models on MATLAB to estimate the effect of central bank discount window policies on inflation.
• Collected datasets from public sources (Census, FFIEC, Fed, BLS), cleaned and analyzed using R.
• Employed cutting-edge causality regressions: instrumental variables, doubly-robust estimators, differences-in-differences, and event studies to analyze effect of fiscal policy on bank lending.
• Constructed behavioral models to show optimal actions for banks under aggregate liquidity risk.

Seattle

• Estimated the causal impact of Fulfilled by Amazon for sellers using synthetic control and conducted robustness and sensitivity analysis using machine learning (random forest, neural net).
• Collect big data (10 mil+) from AWS S3 using SQL and performed analysis using R and Python (Sagemaker) to implement proof-of-concept for Amazon’s SellerCentral.
• Wrote and presented business and technical documents in OP1 for executives and directors. Analyzed and summarized key figures using Python (matplotlib, pandas).
• Assisted team with estimating the causal impact of account managers for cost benefit analysis. Showed that there is heterogenous effect of some AMs, allowing for optimization.

Orange County, California Area

• Be the point of contact with 5 data vendors to negotiate pricing, set up test batches and receive and implement returned data for company to make better informed decisions
• Create Excel modules with formulas and VBA for different departments to improve efficiency and automate manual entry tasks
• Assist the setup of SQL to Access database and use PowerQuery and VBA to merge XML, CSV, and JSON formatted data from data vendors into inventory
• Wrote VBA code to automate sending payoff and reinstatement requests, loan analysis, payoffs and reinstatements to save hundreds of manhours per year
• Created a new standardized template for analysis of financial models using credit profile of borrower and market trends within the first month
• Pulled data from open source APIs to implement into our existing database using VBA.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Mathematics, 3.87 Advanced Courses Gpa

Activities and Societies: Dean’s Honors 2015–2018, Chancellor’s Honors 2016–2018, Integration Bee 2018 ChampionCourses: Math : Complex.