Summary
Eryk Wdowiak is an economist and author in New York with eight years of focused experience bridging academic research, policy analysis, and computational language work. He has taught econometrics, macroeconomics and microeconomics at undergraduate and graduate levels while producing applied research on labor, housing and health outcomes for institutions including the NYS Department of Banking and NYC public health programs. Uncommonly for an economist, he built the first neural machine translator for Sicilian and curated an annotated, searchable Sicilian dictionary and cultural periodical, combining NLP, linguistics and digital humanities. He maintains teaching materials and datasets for students at doviak.net, reflecting a commitment to practical pedagogy and reproducible research. His background—PhD in Economics and an MA in International Economics—lets him move fluently between quantitative policy analysis and computational language projects.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Economics, Ph.D., Economics at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Master of Arts (M.A.), International Economics, Master of Arts (M.A.), International Economics at The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science at Dickinson College
Polish, Italian, English, Spanish, sicilian