Samuel P. Fraiberger

Data Scientist, World Bank Visiting Researcher, Computer Science Visiting Researcher, Northeastern Network Science Institute Visiting Fellow, Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences [email protected] | www.samuelfraiberger.com | @spfraib

Areas of Interest

Computational Social Science | Machine Learning | Natural Language Processing | Network Science | Development Economics | Economics of Digitization | Behavioral Economics

Education

2008 - 2015 New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D., Economics Advisers: Xavier Gabaix (Harvard Economics), Alessandro Lizerri (NYU Economics), Romain Rancière (USC Economics), Lakshmi Subramanian (NYU Computer Science)

2006 - 2007 Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences M.Sc., Applied Mathematics

2003 - 2006 Ecole Centrale Paris B.Sc., Applied Mathematics

Professional Experience

2017- Present World Bank Group, Data Analytics and Tools Data Scientist References: Olivier Dupriez, Haishan Fu

2017- Present Harvard, New York, and Northeastern Universities Visiting Researcher References: Lakshmi Subramanian, David Lazer

2015 - 2017 Northeastern University, Network Science Institute Harvard University, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences Post-Doctoral Research Associate References: Albert-László Barabási, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl

2013 - 2015 New York University, Stern School of Business, Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences Research Scientist References: Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan

2007- 2008 International Monetary Fund, Research Department Research Officer Reference: Romain Rancière

2006 - 2007 Harvard University, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Research Assistant Reference: Erez Lieberman-Aiden

Publications

● Ananth Balashankar, Sunandan Chakraborty, Samuel Fraiberger, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Identifying Predictive Causal Factors from News Streams, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019.

● Samuel P. Fraiberger, Roberta Sinatra, Magnus Resch, Christoph Riedl, Albert-László Barabási, Quantifying Reputation and Success in Art, Science 362 (6416), 825-829, 2018.

● Samuel P. Fraiberger, Do Lee, Damien Puy, Romain Rancière, Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices, NBER Working Paper, 2018. (Submitted)

● Samuel P. Fraiberger, Carlos Herrera, C., Antonio Prada, Arun Sundararajan Personality, Homophily, and Embeddedness, 2018. (Submitted)

● Ananth Balashankar, Sunandan Chakraborty, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Srikanth Jagabuthula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Causal Inference from News Streams, ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Causal Inference, 2018.

● Henry Chen, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Robert Moakler, Foster Provost, Enhancing Privacy and Control when Drawing Data-Driven Inferences about Individuals, Big Data 5 (3), 197-212, 2017.

● Samuel P. Fraiberger, News Sentiment and Cross-country Fluctuations, Proceedings of EMNLP Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, 125-131, 2016.

● Samuel P. Fraiberger, Arun Sundararajan, Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets in the Sharing Economy, Working Paper, 2016.

● , Samuel P. Fraiberger, Xavier Gabaix, Romain Rancière, Adrien Verdelhan, Crash Risk in Currency Markets, Review of Financial Studies, 2015. (Revise and Resubmit)

Press Coverage

● 2018: Wall Street Journal, The , Newsweek, Cosmos, Artnet, Marginal Revolution, Bilan, Fohla de Sao Paolo ● 2017: Newsweek, Phys.Org ● 2016: Newsvision, Le Parisien ● 2015: Washington Post, Mashable, Fast Company

Referee Activities

● Track Chair, ACM Compass ● Referee, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy ● Referee, International Conference on Information Systems ● Referee, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ● Referee, International Conference on Complex Networks

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

● 2019: World Bank RSB Grant (PI): Measuring the Sustainable Development Goals Using Big Data ● 2018: Best paper award (Quantifying Reputation and Success in Art), Oxford Business School ● 2016: NU Lab Grant (PI), IC2S2 Datathon (with Rachel Bloom, Adam Hughes, and Patrick Van Kessel), IMF Big Data Challenge (with Damien Puy and Romain Rancière), ● 2015: Net Institute Summer Grant (PI), Google Research Award (with A. Sundararajan) ● 2013: Foundation Banque de France Grant (with Emmanuel Farhi, Xavier Gabaix, and Romain Rancière), NYU CV Starr Grant ● 2008: McCracken Fellowship ● 2006: Jean Gaillard Fellowship

Conference Speaker

● 2019: TEDx (Katowice), Data Day (World Bank), Econothon (World Bank) ● 2018: NetSci-X (Huang Zhou), IC2S2 (Northwestern), NetSci (Paris), AI for Development (San- Francisco)

● 2017: NetSci-X (Tel-Aviv), Complenet (Dubrovnik), Sunbelt (Beijing), IC2S2 (Cologne), CCS (Cancun) ● 2016: AEA Meetings (San Francisco), NetSci ‘16 (Seoul), IC2S2 (Northwestern), CCS (Amsterdam), NLPCSS at EMNLP (Austin) ● 2015: NBER Economics of Digitization (Stanford), The ZEW Economics of Information and Communication Technologies (Mannheim), Federal Trade Commission Workshop (Washington DC), CrowdBerkeley Symposium (Berkeley) ● 2014: NYU Stern Sharing Economy Summit (NYC), BU Platform Strategy Research Symposium (Boston), NYU Stern IS Seminar (NYC), IMF Research Seminar (Washington DC), Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (Aukland) ● 2013: IFSID Conference (Montreal), European Economic Association Conference (Gothenburg), Paris School of Economics Seminar (Paris), University of Miami SFS Conference (Miami) ● 2010: Society for Economic Dynamics Conference (Montreal), European Finance Association Conference (Bergen)

Teaching

● 2014: Data Science (NYU Stern, MS & MBA) ● 2013: Data Science (NYU Stern, MS & MBA), Econometrics (NYU, Undergraduates) ● 2012: Development Economics (NYU, Undergraduates), Finance (NYU, Undergraduates) ● 2011: Microeconomics (NYU Stern, Undergraduates), Game Theory (NYU, Undergraduates) ● 2010: Macroeconomics (NYU, Undergraduates), Statistics (NYU, Undergraduates) ● 2007: Finance (Harvard, MPA)

References

● Albert-László Barabási Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science Distinguished University Professor Director, Center for Complex Network Research Northeastern University Email: [email protected]

● Xavier Gabaix (Dissertation Advisor) Department of Economics Harvard University 1805 Cambridge St Cambridge MA 0218, USA Email: [email protected]

● David Lazer Department of Political Science and College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Email: [email protected]

● Foster Provost Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences Stern School of Business New York University 44 West Fourth St., Suite 8-86 New York, NY 10012-1126 Email: [email protected]

● Romain Rancière Vice-Chair, Department of Economics University of Southern California 700 19th Street, N.W. Washington DC, 20431 Email: [email protected]

● Lakshmi Subramanian

Associate Professor Computer Science Department Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 60 5th Ave, #416 New York University, NY 10003 Email: [email protected]

● Arun Sundararajan Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences Stern School of Business New York University 44 West Fourth St., Suite 8-93 New York, NY 10012-1126 Email: [email protected]