La "data factory"
Faten Amama
Data Scientist
Training and Experience
- Master's degree at Sophia Antipolis university as a data scientist.
- Data Scientist, MindLytix (internship, March - September 2017)
MindLytix is a start-up company working in the field of digital advertising, who helps firms to better target their advertisements. Faten's main task was to process textual data to understand users' moods and to know their interests via their browsing history.
Methodologies
- Textual analysis
- Unsupervised processing of textual documents
- Automatic text segmentation
- Topic modelling
- Sentiment analysis
Programming Languages and databases
- Programming languages : C++, JAVA, Pascal, Maple, Python, R, Spark
- Databases : SQL, MySQL, NOSQL, Oracle, Hadoop
Bruno Chaves
Coordinator of the project
A double background in computer sciences and economics / econometrics
- CNRS Engineer in Information Technology, data analyst and project manager since more than 10 years.
(Nanterre University, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Dauphine University) - Previously : Research and teaching assistant in econometrics / statistics (Sorbonne University)
Coordinator for several international research projects :
- SIOE - Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (coordinator since 2007)
- IOEA - Institutional & Organizational Economics Academy (co-coordinator since 2002)
- DIME - Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe (IT manager 2005-2011)
Methodologies and tools
- Project management, object and test driven development, continuous integration methodologies.
- Data analyst (Python, SQL and NoSQL databases), full stack web development (JavaScript, CSS, PHP, HTML5).
Svitlana Galeshchuk
Post-doctoral fellow in data science
Training
PhD in Economics (Ukraine, 2015): Accounting and Analysis of Foreign-Exchange Operations
Publications / Award
- Galeshchuk S., Mukherjee S. (2017) Deep Networks for Predicting Direction of Change in Foreign Exchange Rates. Early View. Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management. Published: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/isaf.1404/full
- Galeshchuk S. (2016) Neural networks performance in exchange rate prediction. Neurocomputing (Elsevier Science), Vol. 172(C), 446-452.
Published: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231215010528. - Galeshchuk S., Technological bias at the exchange rate market. Early View. Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management.
Published: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/isaf.1408/full - Galeshchuk S., Mukherjee S. Evolving Trading Signals at Foreign Exchange Market. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS’2017, June 2017). Original paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-60285-1_9.
Awards
- 2017 : Visiting Researcher at the National Bank of Poland (May 15-26/17)
- 2017 : Invited Professorship at Université Grenoble-Alpes, France (01/17-07/17)
- 2015 : Fulbright Faculty Development Research Scholarship, IIE, USA
- 2013 : Eiffel excellence scholarship, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
Research Fields
Financial Markets, Monetary Policy, Economic Forecasting, Data Analysis, Neural Computing
Methodologies and tools
- Data Analysis: high-dimensional problems, clustering, genetic algorithms
- Neural Computing and Forecasting: neural networks, deep learning
- Software: Python, R, Tensorflow
Nada Mimouni
Post-doctoral fellow in computer sciences
Training
- PhD, Université Paris 13 , LIPN, RCLN team Querying a semantic network of documents: intertextuality in legal information access
- Research engineer, Technische Universität Darmstadt - Germany, UKP NLP & Semantic IR for Question Answering
- Master in computer science, INRIA-LORIA , ORPAILLEUR
Publications
- A Conceptual Approach for Relational IR: Application to Legal Collections. International conference on Formal Concept Analysis - ICFCA 2015
- Search and discovery in legal document networks. International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2015
- Une ontologie documentaire pour l'accès aux contenus juridiques. 26es Journées francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances - IC 2015
- An Approach for Searching and Browsing a Network of Legal Documents, Law Science Technology Review, 2014
- Towards Graph-based and Semantic Search in Legal Information Access Systems, JURIX 2014
Research Fields
Document network analysis, Intertextuality, Information Retrieval, Semantic web, Ontology design
Methodologies
- Knowledge engineering
- Semantic web, Ontologie design, Semantic technologies
- Data linking
- Application domains : Legal texts, Relational querying, Governance analytics
Main Programming langages and Tools
- Java, R, Python, RDF/RDFs, OWL, SPARQL, TopBraid Composer, Protégé
Ju Qiu
Post-doctoral fellow in economics
Training
PhD (Toulouse School of Economics, 2014), Thesis: Essays on Household Consumption Behaviour and Risk Sharing in Developing Countries
Publications
- Impact of Tenure Reform on Forest Management Models: the Case of Fujian Province (with Yan Sun, Jintao Xu, and Ling Li), The Journal of Forestry Economics (a peer reviewed journal in Chinese), January, 2007, p.23-27.
Working papers:
- Nonparametric Decomposition of the Distributional Change in Body Mass Index in China (with Professor Pierre Dubois)
- Migration, Consumption Smoothing and Household Income: Evidence from Thai Villages (with Yaping Wu)
Sorting in Risk-sharing Networks: Evidence from Thai Villages - Income Gains From Internal Migration in China (with Professor L. Alan Winters)
Research Fields
Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Health Economics
Methodologies and tools
- Econometrics: identification of causality and program evaluation, Nonparametric Decomposition method, Panel data analyses, Discrete Choice model
- Types of Data: Cross-sectional, short and long panels, network data
- Statistical Softwares: Stata, Matlab, R
Timothy Yeung
Post-doctoral fellow in economics
Training
PhD (Toulouse School of Economics, 2015), Thesis: Essays on Political Economy
Publications
- Political philosophy, executive constraint and electoral rules, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016 (forthcoming). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2016.10.006
Other working papers :
- Understanding Airbnb in 14 European Cities, coauthored with Diane Coyle
- Do Majoritarian Rules Favour Larger Industries in the Economy, coauthored with Izaskun Zuazu
- A Cheap-talk Model with Multiple Free-riding Audiences
Research Fields
Political Economy, Public Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics
Methodologies and tools
- Econometrics: hypothesis testing, identification of causality and program evaluation
- Types of Data: Cross-sectional, short and long panels, survival analysis
- Statistical Softwares: Stata, SAS
