Daniel Silva-Inclan

Daniel Silva-Inclan

Projects Officer

International Monetary Fund

About me

Hello, my name is Daniel Silva-Inclan. I am open to new opportunities in both software development and data science.

I am interested in building robust software to better scale decision-making and research. In my 3+ years of experience, I have focused in leveraging computational tools to make the research process more efficient and robust. I have built and prototyped various software pipelines and visualizations for economists and other domain experts. I am most comfortable working in Python, R, bash, git, SQL, and Docker but also have experience with Go and C/C++. My preferred editor is Neovim + Terminator.

Outside of work, you can find me cooking new recipes (big fan of pambazos right now) or playing Age of Empires 2 DE.

Interests

  • Optimization and Metaheuristics
  • Causal Inference (with ML and econometrics)
  • Differential Privacy
  • Sous-vide cooking

Education

  • M.S. in Computer Science with Specialization in High-Performance Computing, 2020

    University of Chicago

  • B.S. in Statistics; B.A. in Economics, 2016

    University of Chicago

Recent posts

Driving Fatalities in US

The data is from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). You can download the data from their website and clean it for this analysis using the following script.

Passing Along the Cranberry Sauce (Pure Python vs Numpy vs Numba)

Speeding up your program by over 40x with little cost

Exploring Changes in Preferences in Beer Across the US

The reign of light beers is ending and at least judges are more likely to award medals to Wild/Sour beers, IPAs, and Specialty Beers.