Bio: Simón is a Ph.D. student at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Prior to Berkeley, he worked in the consulting and financial industry in South America. Simón holds a B.S. in computer engineering, and a B.A. and M.A. in economics from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. In his spare time, Simón enjoys playing squash and reading (currently enjoying Vargas Llosa's "La Guerra del Fin del Mundo").
Research: Simón's research interests are at the intersection of machine learning and development economics, with a focus on financial technologies and services in the developing world.
Fields of Interest: Machine learning, development economics, finance
Recent Publications:
A supervised clustering MCMC methodology for large categorical feature spaces
Incorporating High-Frequency Weather Data into Consumption Expenditure Predictions (Machine Learning for the Developing World (ML4D) Workshop, NeurIPS 2021)
