Brad Ross
Assistant Professor at The Wharton School
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Ross is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Transportation Economics at the NBER and an incoming Assistant Professor of Real Estate at Wharton, bringing 11 years of research and technical experience to urban economics and public policy. He applies and develops causal inference and industrial organization methods to study how transportation and housing policies shape cities, combining rigorous econometrics with practical policy relevance. Trained at Stanford with advanced degrees in economics, statistics, and computer science, he bridges empirical theory and computational methods. His background includes research with leading economists and internships at major tech firms, reflecting fluency in data engineering and scalable analysis. Based in Palo Alto, he maintains an active research portfolio and public-facing website that showcases tools and papers for policymakers and fellow researchers. Notably, his work is funded by NBER’s "Transportation Economics in the 21st Century" project, signaling direct influence on contemporary transport policy debates.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessThe Nueva SchoolCrystal Springs Uplands SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Statistics at Stanford University
Github Skills (26)
cs231n9
neo4j9
cypher9
directed-acyclic-graph8
graph8
neo4j-database8
javascript7
graph-database7
graphdb7
spotify7
database7
html6
graph-algorithms6
graph-drawing6
nosql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brad-ross/song-embeddings
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Using generative deep learning models to learn embeddings for songs on Spotify
Contributions:51 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
deep-learningspotify
brad-ross-35/pype
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
dropboxevernotenotebooksdirectoriessyncs
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