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Andrei Dubovik

Andrei Dubovik is a researcher at SEO with a broad experience in data analysis and econometrics. Early in his career, at RBB Economics, he worked on competition cases, including merger analysis and assessment of cartel damages. Later, while at CPB, he did applied research in finance, including projects on venture capital, banking competition, crypto markets. In 2019 he switched within CPB to a newly formed data-science unit, with the focus on applying machine learning techniques to forecasting and causal inference. Lastly, before joining SEO, Andrei did applied AI work at a crypto startup, including developing bespoke real-time trading algorithms, as well as the supporting data engineering work (data pipelines, data storage).

While Andrei’s early research entailed stand-alone analysis, where code would be run once to produce the required research output, he later was increasingly involved in developing tooling that can be used semi-automatically or automatically in production pipelines. For instance, at CPB and jointly with his colleagues, he developed a tool for short-term forecasts of the world trade using classical machine learning techniques. CPB does regular reports on the world trade and that tool can be used to streamline the compilation of certain forecasts. More recently, most of Andrei’s work at the crypto startup consisted of optimization and statistics models that run in production, some of them with real time restrictions, serving tens of thousands of unique monthly users.

Andrei’s personal interests gravitate towards game theory, reinforcement learning algorithms and AI. For instance, in 2017 Andrei had organized games for simple AI agents to see how they would compete in a classical economics game with capacity-constrained firms. In his free time he tinkers with Lisp (programming language) and now and then writes a technical blog, see https://dubovik.eu.

Andrei received his PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he studied game theory and industrial organizations. Notably, two papers written during his studies were later published in Games and Economic Behavior: “Oligopolistic Competition in Price and Quality”, jointly with Maarten Janssen, and “Guns, Drugs, and Targeted Competition”, jointly with Alexei Parakhonyak.

Would you like to know how Andrei can contribute to your organization? Then contact him directly:

a.dubovik@seo.nl