Vira Semenova
Assistant Professor Of Economics at University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolVira Semenova is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley with nine years of experience bridging econometrics and machine learning in academic research. She completed advanced training at MIT and Cambridge and held a postdoctoral position at Harvard, grounding her work in rigorous theory and cutting-edge methods. Her research combines statistical rigor with practical ML tools to address causal inference and estimation challenges in economics. Vira has industry research experience from Microsoft Research (Project ALICE), highlighting her ability to translate academic ideas into collaborative, applied projects. Based in Berkeley, she maintains an active academic presence and makes her work accessible via a public website. Colleagues note her uncommon dual foundation in mathematics and economics, enabling precise, technically sophisticated approaches to empirical questions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Philosophy - MPhil, Economics and Econometrics, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Economics and Econometrics at University of CambridgeBachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyBachelor's degree, Mathematics, 5.0, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, 5.0 at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English, Ukrainian, French, German
Github Skills (5)
causal-inference9
machine-learning8
statistics5
random-forest4
econometrics2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vsemenova/orthoml
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Code associated with paper: Orthogonal Machine Learning for Demand Estimation: High-Dimensional Causal Inference in Dynamic Panels, Semenova, Goldman, Chernozhukov, Taddy (2017) https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09988
Contributions:36 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
causal-inferencemachine-learning
vsemenova/leebounds
Aug 2020 - May 2025
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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