projects
hello! here are some of the projects I’ve worked on.
0.1 Global private default risk analysis (working draft)
I created this web-app to perform predictive analytics that estimates private default risk at the country-level using World Bank GEMS default-rate data as the target variable and IMF Financial Development Index indicators, along with macroeconomic fundamentals, as the feature set. Technical features:
- Automated, versioned data ingestion from World Bank and IMF FDI APIs
- Modular components between data, models, and UI, with prediction logic and feature engineering implemented in R.
- Bootstrap-ensemble ML pipeline for distributional forecasting.
- Built-in model interpretability using SHAP values
- Reduced runtime latency through offline model training with hashed predictor sets and registry
- Automated reporting via R markdown, generating consistent “presentation-ready” briefs.
- Deployment practices using Git/GitHub for version control and ShinyApps.io/containerized hosting for reproducible delivery.
0.2 U.S. Federal Expenditure tracker (Brookings)
For some interesting work I did with some colleagues (s/o Noadia + Lauren), check out this R Shiny app on U.S. Federal Outlays (spending)
0.4 U.S. Tariff & Trade tracker (Brookings)
During the height of the tariff uncertainty in Q1/Q2 2025, I developed a tariff tracker with my wonderful colleagues. Check it out!
0.3 Social spending mini-simulation
I created this simple mini-simulation to visualize how redistribution through social spending works. It’s quite “naive” in the sense that it models the income distribution of an entire country as ten shares. However, it helped me understand how redistribution directly impacts inequality metrics like the Gini coefficient.