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

Sevin Yeltekin

Sevin Yeltekin is a Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University with research interests in computational economics and macroeconomics.

Richard W. Evans is Director of the Open Source Macroeconomics Laboratory, Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute, and Senior Lecturer in the M.A. Program in Computational Social Science at the University of Chicago. He specializes in macroeconomics, public economics, and computational economics.

Matthew McKay

Matthew McKay is the chief technology officer at QuantEcon with research interests in computational development economics and international trade.

Daisuke Oyama

Daisuke Oyama is a Professor at the University of Tokyo with research interests in game theory, and also a maintainer of GameTheory.jl.

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.

Lead Developers

Smit Lunagariya

Smit Lunagariya is a QuantEcon research assistant and a final-year student at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. Smit’s interests lie in High-performance computing, compilers, and open source scientific computing.

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.

Pablo Winant

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

Humphrey Yang

Humphrey Yang is a QuantEcon research assistant and a final-year student at Australian National University (ANU). Humphrey’s primary research interests lie in data science, computational social science, and high-performance computing.

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)

Design and Marketing

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

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.

Working for QuantEcon

Natasha Watkins

Research Assistant

Natasha is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California. During her pre-doctoral fellowship at QuantEcon, Natasha assisted in running workshops on data analysis and econometrics in Python. She has contributed material to QuantEcon lectures, covering the Pandas and Statsmodels libraries, and maintains QuantEcon news and social media.

Flint O'Neil

Lead Developer

Flint is a QuantEcon research assistant and student in Economics at Stanford University. His primary interest is in macro-finance and mathematical economics. Flint is working to understand the nature of default and debt as amplification mechanisms in the macroeconomy. He is also a research assistant for QuantEcon and was Professor Stachurski's Honours student at the ANU.

Zejin Shi

Research Assistant

Zejin is a PhD student at the University of Arizona, working on Macro labor economics, understanding people's marital and labor supply decisions. He is a research assistant at QuantEcon and has helped construct lecture notebooks and Python modules.

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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.

Sagiri Kitao

Sagiri Kitao is a Professor at the University of Tokyo with research interests in macroeconomics and public policy.

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.

Previous Lead Developers

Zejin Shi

Zejin Shi is a pre-doctoral research assistant at QuantEcon based in Shenzhen.

Spencer Lyon

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.