Alan Isaac
Professor Of Economics at American University
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Isaac is a Professor of Economics at American University with a PhD from UC Davis and over three decades on faculty combining rigorous theory with computational methods. He specializes in agent-based simulation and choice theory, translating complex micro-level behaviors into tractable models that inform policy and market analysis. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, he blends academic research with practical simulation work, often bridging theoretical insights and empirical implementation. Although his GitHub activity is minimal, his long tenure suggests a deep mentorship role and sustained contribution to curriculum and graduate training. Colleagues know him for turning abstract choice-theoretic problems into insightful, executable simulations that illuminate emergent outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
PhD, Economics, PhD, Economics at University of California, Davis
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (133)
graph-algorithms10
gradient-descent10
python10
network-analysis10
numerics10
gtk10
graph-visualization10
polars10
threaded10
scientific-computing10
graph-theory10
qt10
root-finding10
data-visualization10
numba10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alan-isaac/econpy
Aug 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 32 pushes in 7 years 2 months
dschwilk/bibstuff
Aug 2015 - Aug 2021
Classes and command-line utilities for interacting with BibTeX style databases
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 6 years
command-line-utilitiesdatabaseslatexbibtex
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