Evan Davis
Co-Founder & CTO & Chief Research Officer at Behavioral Economics Association at Berkeley
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Davis is a researcher-led technology executive with 14 years of experience who blends rigorous academic economics with hands-on technical leadership as Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Research Officer at a stealth startup in Santa Barbara. He has led publication and research efforts at UC Berkeley’s Behavioral Economics Association and translated theory into practice—building a rideshare dispatch prototype and modeling AI investment cycles and monetary policy while at IBM. Comfortable moving between formal economic modeling, game theory, and product-focused algorithm design, he excels at turning complex theoretical insights into deployable systems. Evan’s background combines dual honors in Economics and Computer Science with a sustained record of academic authorship and advisory roles, reflecting deep interdisciplinary fluency. Notably, he shifts seamlessly between advising C-suite clients on market research and producing papers that inform central bank policy debates, signaling both practical impact and scholarly ambition. Based in Santa Barbara, he brings entrepreneurial drive, intellectual curiosity, and a knack for making abstract models operational.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics (Honors) Computer Science (Honors) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics (Honors) Computer Science (Honors) Philosophy at University of California, BerkeleySanta Barbara City CollegeDos Pueblos Senior High SchoolHarvard UniversityStanford Summer SessionHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Laguna Blanca School
Github Skills (96)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cptroot/DKriging
Dec 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 2 years 4 months
cptroot/FerrOS
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
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