Elif Yegenoglu Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas, United States

• Texas Health and Human Services Commission (Fraud Analytics and Data Operations (FADO))
• Extracted and analyzed large scale claims data from 22 Managed Care Organizations to identify fraud, abuseand waste in Medicaid and other social service programs.
• Utilized SAS, SQL and BusinessObjects XI (BOXI) tools to gather and validate the data for the quantitative analysis of the trends in the losses and optimize the prevention plans.
• Performed operational oversight and worked as a liaison between the providers and agency regarding the compliance and fraud, abuse and waste investigations in Medicaid/CHIP and other social service programs.

College Station, Texas, United States

• Analyzed national health-related survey data to assess the trends and investigate the causal relationship between the access to health care and crime using a variation of a policy change. Estimated the impact and the.
• Collaborated to conduct a economic survey study to assess the factors in college major choice. Assisted with IRB submission of the study, utilized Qualtrics to prepare the survey interface and questionnaire.
• Designed an economic lab experiment as a team project to understand the emotional responses during economic decisions by implementing a game theory model. Utilized oTree via Python to prepare the experiment interface.
• Conducted a gap analysis, assessed current methodologies and recommended a research agenda with novel data resources and model specifications on a given topic to design new discover cause-and-effect relationship.

College Station, Texas, United States

• Courses: ECMT 463 Introduction to Econometrics (Spring 2020), ECMT 461 Introduction to Economic Data Analysis(Fall 2020)
• Prepared supplementary review sessions, graded and provided feedback on projects, exams and final research papers to a class of 200+ students and a class of 80 students respectively.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Used hedonic regression to estimate the quantitative value of ”non-market” characteristics on market price.
• Scraped 37,196 listings of land for sale by the owner using HTML Parsing Method in Excel on sahibinden.comas a Turkish platform where people buy and sell real estate as free of charge.
• Managed and implemented the model in R to obtain the results from the multi-variable analysis. Gathered the visualized outputs and the implications from the findings in a research paper.

Istanbul, Turkey

Courses: Intermediate Microeconomics (Spring 2015), Game Theory (Summer 2015)* Graded the homework, projects, and exams and held weekly recitations and office hours and assisted students

College Station, Texas, United States

• Created a up-to-date database on mergers and acquisitions in Turkey with market share information after tracking the recent news, and prepared a descriptive analysis summary.
• Monitored the news and decisions by Federal Reserve for the economic indicators, and delivered a report on the variances between actualized and predicted values retrieved from Bloomberg terminal.
• Translated economics news from Bloomberg website or other international sources for Bloomberg HT Turkey.

Master Of Science - M. S., Econometrics And Quantitative Economics

Activities and Societies: Women in EconomicsConcentration: Applied Microeconomics, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation Completed 3-year.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics

Concentration: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Economics, Double Major

Activities and Societies: Music and Organizations Club (BUMK), Scuba Diving Club (BUSAS), BOUN Sailing Club (Sep 2013 – May 2016)

Summer School, Economics

Advanced Econometrics

Education record

Activities and Societies: , Percussion Club (Sep 2007 – May 2008)