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 a post-doctoral researcher and lead developer at Australian National University 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

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.

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)

Chase Coleman

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.

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.

QuantEcon Early Career Researchers

Natasha Watkins

Natasha Watkins is an Early Career Researcher at QuantEcon and based at Australian National University.

Harvey Thompson

Harvey Thompson is a QuantEcon pre-doctoral research assistant based at the Australian National University.

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.

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