Ricardo Semião e Castro
Education and Skills
- Education
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Bachelor's Degree in Economics - FGV-EESP (2019 - 2023)
Master's Degree in Economics - FGV-EESP (2024 - ongoing)
- Languages
- Fluent English - Cambridge English: Advanced (C1) Certificate
- Programming
- R | Python Familiarity with JavaScript | Julia | Stata
- Documenting
- LaTeX | HTML/CSS | Quarto | Microsoft Office
- Other tools
- Git/GitHub | SQL Familiarity with docker
Experience
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Researcher
ADB Sindical (syndicate of Brazilian diplomats) 08/2024 - ongoingResearch on the diplomatic career path and its barriers. Creation of a predictive calculator for individual's careers. Data scrapping, reorganization, and validation, from different media sources.
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Research Assistant
FGV-EESP & Ripple 10/2022 - 04/2023Development of a R-Shiny application for crypto portfolio optimization and analysis.
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Econometrics I Teaching Assistant
FGV-EESP 02/2022 - 06/2023Conducted exercises, theoretical classes, and R teaching sessions.
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Vice President, HR Director
GVCode (data science and programming league at FGV) 06/2020 - 12/2023Coordinated all league activities, created and conducted selection processes and trainee programs. Executed projects in the general realm of programming and data science.
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Private Tutor in Statistics, R, and Python
Private lessons for college students. Active in StackOverflow: 260 answers in over 125 tags, peaked at top 5% in the R community.
Projects
- Code packages: mtsdesc for multivariate time series visualization and testing; phyopt for numerical optimization with population-based hybrid algorithms.
- Development of educational material about R, with classes being given at GV's teaching assistantship and GVCode.
- Thesis: Graduation thesis on SVAR models applied to epidemiology; Masters thesis on performance analysis of regime-switching models via Monte Carlo simulations.
- My personal website built with bare html/scss/js, and custom python scripts to orchestrate components, masonry optimization, processing external projects' sites and the quarto blog.
- See more on my Github.
Awards
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ANPEC exam, the Brazil-wide admission for master's students in economics.
10th place (2023).
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Prediction Model for investment flow in the Brazilian stock exchange, using a neural network.
2nd place in the Dev Challenge (2022, Constellation A. M.).
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Article awards: Ridge and Lasso regression analysis on salary determinants; Nations clustering analysis with WTO data.
1st and 2nd place in the relevant category (2020 and 2021, FGV-EESP).
Other Activities
- Voluntary work during high school. Worked in daycare centers, nursing homes, and hospitals.
- Volunteer teacher in the EESP Ensina Project (2022 - 2023). Taught economics to high school students.
- Member of the Scout Movement (2010 - 2021). Developed socio-environmental activities.
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