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Data Scientist/Financial Economist

Profile Summary

Islam Rizvanoghlu, PhD is an experienced Data Scientist and Economist with an extensive academic and industry experience. During his tenure at the University of Houston, he has worked on various causal inference , optimization and predictive modeling projects, taught a master’s level Data Sience course and supervised capstone projects using machine learning models. Currently, he is working as a Senior Data Scientist at a retail power company, where he builds machine learning models to predict the optimal renewal prices. He is proficient in Python, R, SQL and MATLAB.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Big Data Analytics
• ★ Machine Learning
• ★ Econometrics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Management
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Neural Networks
• ☆ Deep Learning
• ☆ Business Analytics
• ☆ Financial Modeling
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Statistical Theory
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Nonlinear Regression
• ☆ Bayesian Statistics
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Mathematical Statistics
• ☆ Survey Design
• ☆ Trend Analysis
• ☆ Development Economics
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ STATA
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ R
• ☆ Scikit-learn
• ☆ Oracle
• ☆ Hypothesis
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Survey Design & Methodology
• ☆ Statistical Finance
• ☆ Personal Finance & Budgeting
• ☆ Business Finance
• ☆ Mathematical Finance
• ☆ Investment Management
• ☆ Business Statistics
• ☆ Data-Driven Decision Making
• ☆ International Economics
• ☆ Political Economy
• ☆ Consumer Behavior & Theory
• ☆ Macroeconomics
• ☆ Microeconomics
• ☆ Economic Evaluation
• ☆ Business Intelligence
• ☆ Labor Economics

Services

• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Research Market Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Financial Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Senior Quantitative Analyst

Woodside Energy

December 2023 - Present

Instructional Assistant Professor

University of Houston

September 2015 - Present

Senior Data Scientist

NRG Energy

May 2022 - November 2023

Education

PhD (Economics)

Rice University

August 2006 - August 2012

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Islam Rizvanoghlu, Zafer Akin, Murat Issabayev (2022). Incentives and Strategic Behavior of Professional Boxers . Journal of Sports Economics.

Islam Rizvanoghlu, Levent Bulut (2020). Is gold a safe haven? The international evidence revisited . Acta Oeconomica.

(2019). Optimal choice between local content requirement and fiscal policy in extractive industries: A theoretical analysis . Resources Policy.

(2018). Central Bank Independence and Economic Performance in Caucasus and Central Asian Countries . Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research.

(2016). Comment on: “Optimal dynamic production from a large oil field in Saudi Arabia” . Empirical Economics.

(2016). Asymmetric impacts of fundamentals on the natural gas futures volatility: An augmented GARCH approach . Energy Economics.