Academic profile

Curriculum Vitae

Education, research, teaching, awards, and technical background.

Last aligned with the uploaded academic CV Alireza Moslemihaghighi
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Qualifications

2024-2028
Expected

PhD in Economics and Finance

Bocconi University · Milan, Italy

Finance
2021-2024

MSc in Theoretical Economics

Sharif University of Technology · Tehran, Iran

Financial Economics
2015-2020

BSc in Electrical Engineering

Sharif University of Technology · Tehran, Iran

Engineering
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Academic experience

Dec 2024-
Present

Research Assistant · Bocconi University

Research assistant to Prof. Ottaviano, Prof. Goedker, and at the FinTech Lab, conducting research on international trade, financial networks, and intermediary behavior.

2025-2026

Teaching Assistant · Bocconi University

Mathematical Modeling for Finance, Microeconomics I, Principles of Finance, and Behavioral and Experimental Finance.

2019-2021

Research Assistant · Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies

High-dimensional statistics.

2017-2018

Teaching Assistant · Sharif University of Technology

Analog Circuits, Numerical Analysis, and Electrical Engineering Principles.

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Research

Working papers & projects

International beliefs network and currencies

With M. Croce, R. Colacito, and F. Gerding.

Artificial intelligence and the transformation of skilled work

With M. Croce and S. Raymond.

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Publication

A Flexible Approach to Interference Cancellation in Distributed Sensor Networks

IEEE Communications Letters, 2021.

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Contributions

Academic Referee

Economics Letters (Elsevier).

Solutions Manual

High-Dimensional Statistics: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint by Martin J. Wainwright (unpublished).

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Awards & honors

  • 2024PhD Merit Fellowship (5 Years)Bocconi University
  • 2023Best Student AwardEconomics Department, Sharif University of Technology
  • 2021Ranked 9th in Economics and 16th in Computer ScienceNational MSc Entrance Exams, Iran
  • 2016Merit Scholarship (4 Years) and MemberNational Elites Foundation, Iran
  • 2015Ranked 40thNational BSc Entrance Exam, Iran
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Skills & selected coursework

Programming

Python (Excellent), Julia (Good), MATLAB (Excellent), C/C++ (Intermediate)

Scientific tools

LaTeX, Git, Microsoft Office · Windows and Linux

Languages

English (Advanced) · Persian (Native)

Finance

Asset Pricing, Financial Engineering, Continuous-Time Finance, Financial Machine Learning, Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure

Econometrics

Microeconometrics, Time-Series Econometrics, Applied Econometrics

Statistics & ML

High-Dimensional Probability, Causal Inference, Theory of Machine Learning, Stochastic Processes, NLP, Statistical Mechanics, Computer Vision

Mathematics & computation

Combinatorial Optimization, Matroid Theory, Computational Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience

Economics

International Trade, Theory of Choice, Game Theory, Mechanism Design