QuantEcon Team
Founding Members and Co-Chairs

Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent is a Professor of Economics at New York University and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2011 for work in macroeconomics.

John Stachurski
John Stachurski is a Professor of Economics at Australian National University with interests in Markov process theory, asset pricing, dynamic programming and numerical methods.
Committee Members

Richard W. Evans
Richard W. Evans is Director of the Open Source Macroeconomics Laboratory, Senior Economist at the Abundance Institute, and President of the Open Research Group Inc. He specializes in macroeconomics, public economics, and computational economics.

Alfred Galichon
Alfred Galichon is a Professor of Economics and Mathematics at New York University with research interests in Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, and Data Science.
Matthew McKay Lead Developer
Matthew McKay is the chief technology officer (CTO) at QuantEcon with research interests in computational development economics and international trade.
Daisuke Oyama Lead Developer
Daisuke Oyama is a Professor at the University of Tokyo with research interests in game theory, and also a maintainer of GameTheory.jl, QuantEcon.jl, and QuantEcon.py

Sevin Yeltekin
Sevin Yeltekin is Dean and Professor of the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester
Developers

Shunsuke Hori
Shunsuke Hori is an Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University.

Shu Hu
Shu Hu is a QuantEcon research assistant and Professor Stachurski’s PhD student at the Australian National University. Shu’s interests lie in computational economics, macro dynamics, and network theory.

Eli Knaap
Eli Knaap is a research scientist and Associate Director of the Center for Geospatial Sciences at the University of California-Riverside, with interests in spatial data science, urban dynamics, and neighborhood effects. He is also a core developer for the Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL)
Smit Lunagariya Lead Developer
Smit Lunagariya is a QuantEcon lead developer and now works at Google. Smit’s interests lie in High-performance computing, compilers, and open source scientific computing.

Nisha Peng
Nisha Peng is a PhD student at Australian National University (ANU). Nisha’s primary research interests lie in dynamic macroeconomics.

Zejin Shi Lead Developer
Zejin Shi has completed his PhD at the University of Arizona, and is now an Assistant Professor at Wuhan University.

Longye Tian
Longye Tian is a PhD student at Australian National University (ANU). Longye’s primary research interests lie in computational economics, and high-performance computing.

Pablo Winant
Pablo Winant is a research economist at the Bank of England and creator of the dolo package.

Humphrey Yang Lead Developer
Humphrey Yang is a QuantEcon research assistant and PhD student at Australian National University (ANU). Humphrey’s primary research interests lie in data science, computational social science, and high-performance computing.
Design and Marketing
Andrij Stachurski
Andrij Stachurski is a Web Technology Consultant and a Front-end Web Developer/Designer who enjoys working remotely from different parts of the globe.

Jingni Yang
Jingni Yang is a decision theorist and assistant professor at the School of Economics at University of Sydney. She was previously a researcher at the Computational Media Lab, School of Computing, ANU
Working for QuantEcon
Previous Steering Committee Members

Susan Athey
Susan Athey is the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford GSB, whose research lies at the intersection of machine learning and econometrics.

David Backus
David Backus was the Heinz Riehl Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a member of the QuantEcon steering committee until he passed away in 2016. A brilliant economist, an open source enthusiast and a wonderful colleague and friend, he is greatly missed by all the QuantEcon team.

Sagiri Kitao
Sagiri Kitao is a Professor at the University of Tokyo with research interests in macroeconomics and public policy.
Previous Developers
Quentin Batista
Quentin Batista is a PhD student at MIT, and about to start a new role at Amazon.

José Bayoán Santiago Calderón
José Bayoán Santiago Calderón is PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University with research interests in computational economics and econometrics (job market candidate this year).

Chase Coleman Lead Developer
Chase Coleman received his PhD in Economics from New York University in May 2019. He is a co-founder and Managing Director of Valorum Data.

Spencer Lyon Lead Developer
Spencer Lyon received his PhD in Economics from New York University Stern in September 2018. He is a co-founder of Valorum Data where he now works as a Managing Director and also teaches data science courses at UCF and private institutions in the central Florida area.

Arnav Sood
Arnav Sood is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Vancouver School of Economics (UBC), working with Jesse Perla.

Harvey Thompson
Harvey Thompson was a QuantEcon pre-doctoral research assistant based at the Australian National University, and is now working at Treasury.

Frank Wu
Frank Wu was a QuantEcon research assistant final-year student at Australian National University (ANU).

Hengcheng Zhang
Hengcheng Zhang is a QuantEcon research assistant who is a based in Canberra with interests in data science, machine learning, and scientific modeling.