Vitalie Spinu

Vitalie Spinu obtained both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Actuarial Science from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest. In 2008 he started as a doctoral student at the Tinbergen Institute with behavioural decision theory and experimental economics as his primary fields of interest.

His research interests include computational statistics and data analysis, with a primary focus on Bayesian hierarchical modelling. His research has been published in various journals such as the Journal of Mathematical Economics and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. He is also a core-developer of Emacs Speaks Statistics – a rich Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for statistical computing languages.

Senior data scientist at SMAVA. He has have been developing models and deploying system in a variety of domains such as fraud detection, churn prediction, audio diarization, recommender systems, behavioral search engines, semantic document clustering and topic modeling.

Companies

• Senior Data Scientist smava GmbH (2019)
• Assistant Professor Erasmus University Rotterdam (2015 — 2019)
• postdoc UCLA Anderson School of Management (2013 — 2015)

Education

• Master of Science (MS) Academia de Studii Economice din București (2000 — 2005)
• PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam (2008 — 2013)