Resume

• 2015.

  Reprinted in \"Household Finance\"

  M. Haliassos

  ed. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics

  no. 309. E. Elgar

  Household Need for Liquidity and the Credit Card Debt Puzzle

  Directed Search over the Life Cycle

  Measuring High-Frequency Income Risk from Low-Frequency Data

  Home Equity in Retirement

  Irina A.

  Telyukova

  International Monetary Fund

  Intensity Corporation

  University of California San Diego

  Yoga Beyond Cancer

  Federal Reserve Bank of New York

  Mulligan Funding

  LLC

  Federal Reserve Board

  Research focused on quantitative household finance

  particularly housing

  retirement saving

  and credit card debt. Worked with large household-level and firm-level data sets in the US and other developed economies

  and developed large-scale heterogeneous-agent quantitative models for the analysis of decision-making under uncertainty. Taught undergraduate (150-300 students) and Ph.D.-level courses

  routinely presented to audiences of varied sizes in seminars and conference worldwide. During this time

  had repeated engagements as visiting scholar at Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia

  Atlanta

  St. Louis

  as well as Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. Published in top peer-reviewed academic journals

  and served as referee for numerous journals.

  University of California San Diego

  Intensity Corporation

  San Diego

  CA

  Provided economic consulting and expert services in high-stakes litigation

  including complex intellectual property and other commercial disputes

  and labor and employment issues. Provided consulting services in predictive modeling

  business analytics

  and financial forecasting

  using advanced data-driven and quantitative methods. Headed a team of economists

  data scientists

  and software engineers to develop financial forecasting models resulting in a forecasting software product.

  Vice President

  Worked closely with economists in the International Research Section. Helped run international market analyses and forecasts for the FOMC cycle

  with particular focus on the Euro Area. Collaborated on and co-authored internal and academic publications with section economists

  including topics on international trade and dynamics of oil prices.

  Federal Reserve Bank of New York

  Mulligan Funding

  LLC

  Greater San Diego Area

  Mulligan provides business funding to small and medium enterprises across the U.S. I oversee data management and predictive modeling for all business areas of the company

  ranging from data analysis and aspects of database design to prototyping

  building

  and operationalizing economic models and predictive algorithms.

  Senior Vice President of Analytics

  Dissertation intern at the Household and Real Estate Finance and Flow of Funds groups

  within the Research & Statistics Section of the Federal Reserve. Research focused on credit card debt

  money demand

  and uncertainty among U.S. households. Presented research in seminars at the Federal Reserve

  participated in section meetings and interacted with economists throughout the Board.

  Dissertation Intern

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Federal Reserve Board

  San Diego

  Helped design business forecasting and pricing optimization models. Contributed economic and econometric expertise in a number of high-stakes intellectual property litigation cases.

  Economist

  Intensity Corporation

  Washington DC / San Diego

  Studied implications of commodity price shocks and macroeconomic policy response for economic inequality in low-income countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Developed heterogeneous-agent multi-sector models that can be mapped to household-level data using numerical methods

  to be applied in a variety of countries

  and for numerious policy and distributional questions

  in low-income countries.

  Visiting Research Scholar/Economist

  International Monetary Fund

  San Diego

  Yoga Beyond Cancer is a project devoted to bringing the healing benefits of yoga and meditation to people dealing with cancer and their caregivers

  friends and family. I work with both adults and children

  and offer group and private classes

  online programs

  workshops and teacher trainings. More information and contact info at yogabeyondcancer.com.

  Founder and Yoga Teacher

  Yoga Beyond Cancer

  Yoga Alliance

  American Economic Association

• 2001

  Italian

  German

  Russian

  English

  Ph.D.

  Economics

• 1995

  BA

  summa cum laude

  Mathematics

  Economics

  Concert pianist; German minor; member of the Center for International Studies in Liberal Arts (German focus); co-founder of ConnArtists

  a campus a capella group still active today; academic advisory boards in Economics (Member) and Mathematics (Chair).

  Connecticut College

  Registered Yoga Teacher RYT-200

  Yoga Alliance

  Pre-Conservatory Diploma in Music: Classical Piano concentration

  Shostakovich Music School no.81

  Moscow

  Advanced Experienced Yoga Teacher and Continuing Education Provider: RYT-500

  E-RYT-200

  YACEP

  Yoga Alliance

  Advanced Registered Yoga Teacher RYT-500

  Yoga Alliance

• Villa Musica-San Diego's Community Music Center

  Program Coordinator and Volunteer Yoga Teacher for Kids with Cancer

  Volunteer yoga teacher and Program Coordinator

  Yoga for Kids with Cancer program

  Rady's Children's Hospital (RCH) San Diego. As program coordinator

  organize volunteers and outreach for the program at the Hematology/Oncology department of the hospital. As a volunteer

  provide one-on-one and small-group restorative yoga and relaxation sessions to inpatient and outpatient pediatric oncology patients and their families.

  Sean O'Shea Foundation

  Macroeconomics

  Public Policy

  Teaching

  Research

  Economic Research

  Stata

  Economics

  Higher Education

  Time Series Analysis

  Policy Analysis

  Curriculum Design

  Grant Writing

  Econometrics

  Analysis

  Data Analysis

  Tutoring

  Qualitative Research

  Quantitative Analytics

  Matlab

  Statistics

  Reverse Mortgage Loans: A Quantitative Analysis

  Reverse Mortgage Loans: A Quantitative Analysis

  Precautionary Money Demand in a Business Cycle Model

  Families and Careers

  Medical Expenses and Saving in Retirement: The Case of U.S. and Sweden

  A Model of Money and Credit

  with Application to the Credit Card Debt Puzzle

  Housing and Saving in Retirement Across Countries