Ross Chu

About Me

Ph.D. Data Scientist with 7+ years of experience using machine learning and causal inference to solve business and policy challenges.

Location

Berkeley, CA
Education
    University of California-Berkeley
    August 2019 - May 2025
    degree
    Ph.D
    major
    Economics
    minor
    Psychology
    Northwestern University
    September 2011 - June 2017
Work Experience
    Korean Statistics Data Center & UC Berkeley
    Dissertation Researcher (Economics, Ph.D.)
    Berkeley, CA, United States, 94720
    July 2021 - present
    company
    Korean Statistics Data Center & UC Berkeley
    title
    Dissertation Researcher (Economics, Ph.D.)
    overview
    Conducting dissertation research at the Korean Statistics Data Center (SDC) in Seoul, Korea ● Examining how cognitive biases affect salary negotiations by developing mathematical models and estimating them with salary data ● Analyzing two-sided labor markets by solving dynamic optimization problems with recursive algorithms from reinforcement learning ● Quantifying salary impacts of labor policies in Europe by conducting computational simulations with the estimated model in Python ● Improving estimates of gender pay gaps by flexibly controlling for workplace benefits with double-debiased machine learning ● Designing experiments to measure changes in negotiation behavior when AI predictions are used as heuristics for salary comparisons
    Goldman School of Public Policy (UC Berkeley)
    Instructor (GSI): Applied Causal Inference
    Berkeley, CA, United States, 94720
    July 2022 - November 2022
    Amazon.com (Science Team @ Workforce Planning Solutions)
    Economist / Data Scientist (Ph.D. Intern)
    Seattle, WA, United States, 98194
    May 2022 - July 2022
    Department of Economics (UC Berkeley)
    Graduate Student Researcher
    Berkeley, CA, United States, 94720
    November 2019 - November 2020
    National Bureau of Economic Research (Harvard University)
    Pre-Doctoral Research Associate
    Berkeley, CA, United States, 94720
    June 2017 - May 2019
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Skills
Technical skills
gitpythonrsqlstataunixxpath
Skills
Data AnalysisData AnalyticsData ScienceData VisualizationEconomicsMachine LearningMathematical OptimizationModelingProgrammingShell ScriptingStatistical Data AnalysisStatisticsTesting