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Aleksandr Michuda
Email: am2497@cornell.edu
Website: amichuda.github.io
Github: github.com/amichuda
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandr-michuda
Appointments and Experience
2021+ | Assistant Research Professor | Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society, Cornell University |
Education
2021 | Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis | PhD |
2014 | Economics CUNY Hunter College | BA/MA |
2014 | Philosophy CUNY Hunter College | BA |
Working Papers
Publications
Development Economics
Applied Econometrics
Specialty Crops
Book Chapters
Languages and Skills
English: Fluent
Russian: Fluent
Ukrainian: Basic Knowledge
Technical Skills
Python, Stata, LaTeX, R, Github, Bash
Experience
Consultant (Optimal Nutritional Interventions across Space and Time)
- January 2020 - July 2022
- Advisor: Stephen Vosti
- Responsible for developing a python package that finds the optimal set of nutritional interventions across space and time
- Using 24hr recall or household surveys
- Estimated optimal interventions of effective coverage and lives saved in Cameroon
- Developed dashboards for HKI (Hellen Keller International) to visualize Vitamin A intake in Kenya
Uber - Data Science Intern - Economics and Pricing
- September 2019 - December 2019
- Worked on causal inference in business facing team
- Evaluated policies using regression discontinuity design, difference-in-differences and treatment effect estimation
- Generated spatial and dynamic visualizations of driver behavior using Python and SQL
Research Assistant (Disease Suppressive Crop Rotations)
- July 2016 - September 2019
- Advisor: Rachael E. Goodhue `- Responsible for data management and cleaning
- Regression and ANOVA analysis using Stata and Jupyter Notebooks
- Calibrating dynamic contract models in Python`
Peer Review
Conferences
Pacdev 2022 | Urban Labor Supply Responses to Rural Drought Shocks on Rideshare Platforms. |
NEUDC 2021 | Urban Labor Supply Responses to Rural Drought Shocks on Rideshare Platforms. |
BITSS RT2 2020 | Dynamic Documents with Jupyter Notebooks |
AAEA Meetings 2019 | Evaluating a Systems Approach to Suppressive Crop Rotations in Strawberry Production |
AAEA Meetings 2018 | Political Contributions and the Case of South African Land Reform |
AAEA Meetings 2017 | The Economic Viability of Suppressive Crop Rotations in Organic Strawberry Production |
Empirically Estimating the Impact of Weather on Agriculture | |
EEA Conference 2014 | The Russian Mir and Agrarian Transition |
CUNY’s UGRC 2013 | Large Frontiers and Coercion: An Economic Perspective |
Scholarships and Awards
Summer 2022 | NSF OSP: 142678 |
Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics and Social Sciences (CRRESS) | |
Summer 2022 | Dyson AEP Faculty Seed Grant |
The Surname-Ethnicity Connection: A Validation Exercise | |
Spring 2022 | Dyson AEP Faculty Seed Grant |
Climate induced soil salinity impacts on agricultural productivity and livelihood diversification in the Sundarbans, India | |
Winter 2021 | (CGIAR) SPIA small grant for agricultural innovations in Ethiopia |
Fall 2014 - Spring 2016 | Steindler Fellowship |
Spring 2017 | Henry A. Jastro Grant |
Fall 2017 | BITSS Catalyst Grant |
2017 | Graduate Student Association President |