Ricardo Semião e Castro

Education and Skills

Education

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

Researcher

ADB Sindical (syndicate of Brazilian diplomats) 08/2024 - ongoing

Research 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.
Research Assistant

FGV-EESP & Ripple 10/2022 - 04/2023

Development of a R-Shiny application for crypto portfolio optimization and analysis.
Econometrics I Teaching Assistant

FGV-EESP 02/2022 - 06/2023

Conducted exercises, theoretical classes, and R teaching sessions.
Vice President, HR Director

GVCode (data science and programming league at FGV) 06/2020 - 12/2023

Coordinated all league activities, created and conducted selection processes and trainee programs. Executed projects in the general realm of programming and data science.
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.

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.

ANPEC exam, the Brazil-wide admission for master's students in economics.

10th place (2023).
Prediction Model for investment flow in the Brazilian stock exchange, using a neural network.

2nd place in the Dev Challenge (2022, Constellation A. M.).
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).

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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