Cory Baird
Senior Data Scientist
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolCory Baird is a Python-first data scientist and econometrician with eight years of interdisciplinary experience blending macro-finance research, computational linguistics, and policy analysis. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Maryland and an MPP from the University of Tokyo, and builds reproducible econometric and machine-learning workflows to study how political and economic language drives market outcomes. As a visiting lecturer/researcher at the University of Tokyo and former senior analyst at GeoQuant, he teaches and deploys transformer-based NLP models and forecasting algorithms applied to FX, equities, and sovereign bond markets. Fluent in Japanese and experienced across journalism, government, and academia, he translates institutional narratives into quantifiable signals for policy and investment decisions. Notably, his work combines traditional econometrics with non-structured data pipelines—turning central bank communications and media discourse into actionable market forecasts.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Public Policy at University of MarylandPolitical Science, Political Science, Japanese, Political Science, Political Science, Japanese at University of St. Thomas
English, japenese, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
carbon-emissions9
climate-change8
sustainability8
data-science5
data-visualization5
language-model5
pandas-dataframe4
python4
amazon-sagemaker1
aws1
sagemaker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
corybaird/SPP_Data_Seminar
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
corybaird/graspp_2025_spring
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
Course materials for "Data Science for Public Policy", University of Tokyo
Contributions:29 PRs, 71 pushes, 40 branches in 3 months
data-science
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