Nam Nguyen, PhD

Nam Nguyen, PhD

Doctorate Research Scholar

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

I am an experienced applied economist and data scientist. I enjoy solving challenging problems using data visualization, statistical analysis, machine learning, optimization, and prediction methods. I have an interdisciplinary background and have worked in education, technical support and financial service fields.

Skills

Statistics
R
Python

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Instructor & PhD Candidate
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
August 2017 – Present Wisconsin

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching a diverse set of students with a wide range of technical backgrounds
  • Analysing, modelling and working on independent dissertation projects
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
America Institutes for Research
January 2017 – August 2017 Washington DC
Designed and quality controlled standardized tests for public grade school students
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Teaching Assitant
University of Illinois at Chicago
August 2014 – August 2016 Illinois
Assisted teaching undergraduate students in introductory and intermediate economics courses
 
 
 
 
 
Life Insurance Underwriting Assistant
Transamerica
January 2014 – July 2014 Iowa
Reviewed and audited applications, correspondences, reports and legal documents to comply with business processing rules

Accomplish­ments

Intermediate Machine Learning
Kaggle Nov 2022
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SQL (Intermediate)
HackerRank Sep 2021
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Featured Publications

August, 2022 In UWM Dissertation
Identifying Unsustainable Credit Gap
Identifying Unsustainable Credit Gap

Implements model averaging to improve the performance total credit gap as a predictor of financial crises. The model uses quarterly panel data of 50 years across 40 countries. The methods used are Bayesian model average, partial Area under the ROC curve (pAUC), index synthesizing, n-fold cross-validation, and policy function optimization.
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Recent Publications

Nam Nguyen, PhD (2022). Credit and House Prices Cycles. In UWM Dissertation.

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Nam Nguyen, PhD, Kundan Kishor (2021). Measuring Credit Gap. In UWM Dissertation.

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