Resume

Academic Positions

  • Minerva University, Assistant Professor of Computational Sciences, 2020–Current
  • Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017–2020
  • Columbia University, Barnard College, Adjunct Instructor, 2016–2017

Education

  • CUNY-Graduate Center, Ph.D. in Economics, 2017
  • Texas Tech University, Master of Arts in Economics, 2011
  • Iran University of Science and Technology, Master of Science in Control Systems, 2008
  • Iran University of Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2005

Work Experience

  • Edgur, Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, 2021–Current
  • Cauzl, Co-founder, 2016–Current
  • IBM, Senior Strategy Consulting Intern, Summer 2016
  • Pooyesh Niroo, Sales Manager, 2006–2008

Journal Articles

  • Hadavand, A., Hamermesh, D., Wilson, W., Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?, (2022) Journal of Economic Literature, Link
  • Almasi, P., Hadavand, A., Thomas, S., Gharehgozli, O., Relevance of Education to Occupation: A New Empirical Approach Based on College Courses, (2020) Education Economics, Link
  • Trujillo, A., Hadavand, A., Jennings, L., Amalia Pesantes, M., Diez Canseco, F., Miranda, J.J., Ignorance or Motivated Beliefs: The Role of Motivated Beliefs in Self-management of Diabetes, (2020) Journal of Bioeconomics, Link
  • Myint L., Hadavand A., Jager L., Leek J., Comparison of Beginning R Students’ Perceptions of Peer-Made Plots Created in Two Plotting Systems: A Randomized Experiment, (2019) Journal of Statistics Education, Link
  • Hadavand, A., Muschelli, J., Leek, J., Analysis of Student Behavior Using the R Package crsra, (2019) Journal of Learning Analytics, 6(2). Link
  • Hadavand, A., Misperceptions: An Analysis of Subjective Economic Inequality, Research on Economic Inequality, 26,247-281 Link
  • Hadavand, A., Educational Aid Policy and Inequality: The Case for Merit- and Need-Based Aid, (2018) Review of Social Economy, 76:4, 535-562 Link
  • Tofighi, B., Leonard, N., Greco, P., Hadavand, A., Acosta, M. C., & Lee, J. D., Technology Use Patterns Among Patients Enrolled in Inpatient Detoxification Treatment. (2018) Journal of addiction medicine Link

Pre-Prints

  • Hadavand, A., Hamermesh, D., Wilson, W., Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?, Link
  • Hadavand, A., Gooding, I., Leek, J.T., Can MOOC programs improve student employment prospects?, SSRN Working Paper Series Link
  • Hadavand, A., Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States: 1979-2013, LIS Working Papers Link

Software

  • crsra: Hadavand, A., Muschelli, J., Leek, J.T., crsra: Tidying and Analyzing ‘Coursera’ Research Export Data, Available on CRAN, Link
  • citec: Hadavand, A., citec: A Package for Scraping RePEc CitEc Data, GitHub Link

Patents

  • Hadavand, A., Sikri, D., Johar, I., Kluger, L., Kadochnikov, N., Dasgupta, S., Senthuran, T., Yoshioka T., Intelligent Identification of White Space Target Entity: A Machine Learning Algorithm for Client/Product Matching, IBM, Patent Pending, August 2016.

Teaching

  • Minerva University: Causal Inference (CS130); Econometrics (SS154); Formal Analysis (CS50); Data Science for Social Good; Program and Impact Evaluation
  • Columbia University, Barnard College: Economics of Inequality, Econometrics, Introduction to Economic Reasoning, 2016–2017.
  • Cloud Based Data Science, Johns Hopkins University: Data Science, 2017–2019
  • IBM Chief Analytics Office: Causal Inference, 2016
  • Pepsi: Data Entry in R, 2017
  • CUNY, Brooklyn College: Graduate Econometrics, Elementary Microeconomics, Elementary Macroeconometrics, 2012–2016.
  • Texas Tech University: Principles of Economics, 2011

Grant, Fellowships, Awards

  • Creating Versatile Online Lectures with Dynamic Tools, Co-PI, Johns Hopkins Delta Grant in Digital Education & Learning Technology Acceleration ($50,000), 2019
  • Pilot in data science education as an economic intervention in Baltimore, Co-PI, Abell Foundation ($40,000), 2019
  • LERA Best Paper Award, LERA 70th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2018
  • Dissertation Fellowship Award, CUNY, Graduate Center ($25,000), 2017
  • Doctoral Student Research Grant, CUNY, Graduate Center ($2,000), 2017
  • Sallie Mae Graduate Student Award, Sallie Mae, ($1,000), 2015
  • Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship, CUNY, Graduate Center ($2,000), 2013
  • Quantitative Reasoning Fellowship, CUNY, BMCC ($20,000), 2013
  • Chancellor’s Fellowship, CUNY, Graduate Center ($25,000 for 5 years), 2011

Invited Talks & Conference Presentations

  • Symposium on Data Science & Statistics (SDSS), Data Science Education as an Economic Mobility Intervention, 2020 (link)
  • PAA Annual Meeting, Can MOOC Programs Improve Student Employment Prospects?, 2018
  • IDIES Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, Data Science Education as a Mobility Intervention, 2019 (link)
  • Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, MOOCs: Challenges and Prospects, 2019 (link)
  • University of South Carolina, Dept. of Statistics, Can MOOC Programs Improve Student Employment Prospects?, 2018 (link)
  • ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2017
  • PAA Annual Meeting, Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2017
  • Eastern Economic Association Conference, Misperception and Mismeasurement of Income Inequality, 2017
  • Applied Economics Seminar, CUNY-GC, Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2017
  • LIS Seminar Series, CUNY-GC, Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2016
  • Columbia University, Barnard College, Teaching with Technology, 2016
  • CENS Lab, Stevens Institute of Technology, A Dynamic Model of China’s One-Child Policy, 2014

Services & Memberships

  • Reviewer: Education Finance and Policy; Energy Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  • Member: Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), American Economic Association

Projects

  • DataTrail: Formerly Cloud-Based Data Science (CBDS) consists of two parts. One, a set of pay-what-you-want (including free!) massive open online courses that can be completed on any computer with a web browser and an internet connection. Read more about the project here. There is an article in JHU Public Health magazine about the program heredata-science-careers-baltimores-underserved-community-members).
  • Cauzl: I am a co-founder of Cauzl which is a platform for learning causal inference, econometrics and statistics in an intuitive and fun way. The project is at its final stages and it is currently being user tested. You can check the website here.
  • Inequality.Education: Inequality.education will be a collaborative project by Barnard College students in the course Economics of Inequality, Aboozar Hadavand, and Sarah Thomas. This book will hopefully serve as a source, or an encyclopedia, for undergraduate students interested in inequality through an economic lens. The website will be ready soon and will be the first attempt to create a textbook for an undergraduate Economics of Inequality class.
  • The Canvass: The Canvass is the first platform in economics that encourages and facilitates post-publication discussion. The Canvass also aims to encourage research by exposing ideas so that faculty, researchers, and students themselves develop a more nuanced understanding of important issues in economics. Researchers can subscribe to discussions so they will be notified of new development of the debate.