Gustavo Varela Alvarenga

Education

Education

Ph.D., Mathematical Statistics
University of Maryland
2014 — 2021

Dissertation: Innovations In Time Series Forecasting — New Validation Procedures to Improve Forecasting Accuracy and A Novel Machine Learning Strategy for Model Selection. (Advisor: Benjamin Kedem.)

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M.A., Economics
Universidade de Brasília
2009 — 2011

Master’s thesis: Impacts of Sector Funds on firms — new perspectives from the dose-response function.

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B.S., Statistics
Universidade de Brasília
2004 — 2008

Final project: The empirical characteristic function applied to operational risk.

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Honors & Certifications
Short Courses
Game Theory
Stanford University (Coursera) · Online course
2012
Model Thinking
University of Michigan (Coursera) · Online course
2012
Topics in Real Analysis
Universidade de Brasília · Summer course
2012
Learn Python
Codecademy · Online course
2018
Introduction to JavaScript
Codecademy · Online course
2018