Data Scientist @ From May 2015 to Present (9 months) Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Enterprise Management @ From June 2013 to April 2015 (1 year 11 months) Data Science Fellow @ 12-week data science bootcamp. Capstone project: word2maps.com (no longer active). For more info: https://github.com/ipascu/food-trends This is a tool for exploring and visualizing concepts appearing in Yelp restaurant reviews in San Francisco. The underlying model uses word2vec on Yelp restaurant reviews to map words into a vector space and uses cosine-similarity to extract terms similar to a given term. Given a search query, I extract similar terms to define a concept and then visualize the density of reviews that use those terms on a map. From January 2015 to March 2015 (3 months) Teaching Assistant @ Undergraduate: Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy, Energy Economics and Policy Graduate: Public Economics I From September 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 10 months) Research Assistant @ Implemented multiple inference adjustments, standardized treatment effects and statistical estimates for the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a research study of the effect of a Medicaid expansion in Oregon in 2008 which occurred based on lottery draws from a waiting list. Implemented an algorithm for matching health insurance plans based on characteristics and analyzing choices. Analyzed the effect of changes in employer health insurance cost-sharing on employee health spending and use. From January 2008 to August 2011 (3 years 8 months)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2007 to 2013 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Mathematics @ Wellesley College From 2003 to 2007 Iuliana Pascu is skilled in: Data Analysis, Python, Machine Learning, Econometrics, Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Microeconomics, SQL, Economics, Stata, Scalding, Health Economics, Public Policy, Quantitative Analytics, Economic Research