CV

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

• Full-ride scholarship.
• Selected coursework: econometrics, statistical consulting, machine learning, high-performance computing, knowledge graphs, applied data analysis, microeconomic theory.

Paris, France

• Upper-level Monetary Economics, Banking, and Finance, taught in French at Université Paris Cité.
• French grammar, theater, and studio art, including drawing and painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Selected for a multidisciplinary program of seminars, workshops, and mentorship for 24 Romanian students.

Wesleyan University, Economics and Quantitative Analysis Center

• Study how U.S. imports change before and after antidumping, countervailing-duty, and safeguard actions; began with the QAC summer apprenticeship.
• Linked trade-remedy cases to quarterly U.S. import records from 1990 to 2024 and estimated PPML models with high-dimensional fixed effects on 54.6 million observations in Stata and R.
• Presented the poster “The Trade Effects of US Temporary Trade Barriers: When Do They Start and How Long Do They Last?” in July 2026.

Romanian Center for European Policies

• Compared vocational education and professional certification across five EU countries for a policy brief prepared for Romania’s Ministry of Education.

Instructional Media Services, Wesleyan University

• Oversee operations for a team of 30 student employees, coordinate weekly meetings, and support hiring.
• Replaced manual spreadsheet tracking with a survey-based classroom technology audit.

Instructional Media Services, Wesleyan University

• Supported classroom projectors, touchscreens, AMX controls, Macs and PCs, and set up AV for events, recordings, and Zoom conferences.

Wesleyan Undergraduate Consulting Group

• For a career-center engagement project, surveyed 30+ international students, analyzed Handshake engagement data for 650+ students, identified four barriers, and briefed Career Center leadership on recommendations.

Julia Boca Academy

• Gave free weekly one-on-one support to high-achieving, low-income scholars applying to U.S. colleges: college lists, essays, interviews, financial aid, and scholarships.

Julia Boca Academy, Bucharest

• Tutored 12 Romanian students with personalized English practice materials, curriculum presentations, and study strategies.

Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, Bucharest

• Helped develop and test the online application platform for the Henri Coandă National Research Scholarship, with weekly testing and debugging before the application cycle.

With Alacrity Education, Romania

• Secured a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant and led a free STEAM bootcamp where students built and deployed air-quality monitors.

Wesleyan University

• Led a team of 10 on the second edition of a 49-page international student handbook, designed in Figma, supporting a cohort of 95 incoming international students.
• Student pairing, recruitment, and collaboration with the Gordon Career Center, including an international alumni career panel in November 2026.

Wesleyan University

• Co-moderated a discussion with Hungarian and Romanian activists, organized by the Adelphic Educational Fund, for 20+ students and faculty.

Romania

• Built a platform helping young people find free programs, civic opportunities, and fully funded scholarships, and coordinated a nationwide volunteer team.

UNICEF Romania

• Represented youth perspectives on children’s rights; served on Bucharest’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative committee in 2022–23.
• Contributed youth input to national children’s rights strategy discussions and spoke in TV interviews on volunteering, education, and children’s rights.

Center for Independent Journalism, with UNICEF Romania

• Trained 50+ young people aged 15–18 and worked with 20 teachers on fact-checking and misinformation; spoke at the “Fake or News?” media education conference.

AVE România

• Interviewed candidates and helped select national finalists from 72 regional finalists.

Middlebury College

• $10,000 for AirBox Bootcamp.

• One of two scholars selected for a fully funded U.S. college application advising program.

CITI Program

• Romanian (native), English (full professional proficiency), French (professional working proficiency).

• Stata, R, Python (pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, seaborn), Excel and VBA, Neo4j, Linux, Bash and Slurm, Figma.