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
Software	R \| Python \| LaTeX \| HTML/CSS \| Stata \| Microsoft Office

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 sessions.
Vice President, HR Director

GVCode (programming league at FGV)

06/2020 - 12/2023

Coordinated all league activities, created and conducted selection processes and trainee programs. Executed projects related to programming and data science.
Private Tutor in Statistics, R, and Python

Private lessons for university students. Active in StackOverflow: 260 answers in over 125 tags, top 5% in the R community.

Prediction Model for investment flow in B³ using a neural network.
2nd place in the Dev Challenge (2022, Constellation A. M.).
Analysis using Ridge and Lasso regression on salary determinants.
1st place in the category (2020, by EESP).
Creation of the varutils package with functions for time series models.
In development.
Graduation Thesis on SVAR models applied to epidemiology.
Development of educational material about R.
In development.
ANPEC exam, the Brazil-wide admission for master's students in economics.
10th place (excluding Brazilian economics).
Clustering of countries using K-means and hierarchical clustering with WTO data.
2nd place in the category (2021, by EESP).
See more on my Github.

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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