Paul Tran
Economist at U.S. Department of the Treasury
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Tran is an economist with a decade of experience blending rigorous macroeconomic research, forecasting, and applied data work, joining the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Macroeconomic Analysis in 2026. He holds a PhD in progress from UT Austin with strengths in macro, monetary economics, text analysis, and machine learning, and has repeatedly translated research into operational forecasting tools at the Federal Reserve Board. His work building high-frequency news-intensity indices and incorporating measurement error into GDP and output-gap estimates supported FOMC forecasting and briefings used at senior levels. A seasoned instructor at UT Austin with strong student evaluations and an advanced teaching certificate, he communicates complex methods clearly to both students and policy audiences. Paul’s technical toolkit spans Bash, Python, R, FAME, (P)SQL, SAS, and Stata, enabling reproducible workflows across large administrative and news datasets. He pairs academic depth with practical policy experience, notably producing internal analyses that informed Chair-level communications and cross-division memos.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Mathematical Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Mathematical Economics at Pomona College
Greek, Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (32)
w3c-validation10
distilbert9
korean-nlp7
semantic-html6
classification6
nlp5
natural-language-processing5
question-answering5
internet5
php5
economics5
css5
javascript4
cloudflare4
transformers4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paultran47/paultran47.github.io
Oct 2016 - Mar 2025
A website showing the internet who I am.
Contributions:4 PRs, 696 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 6 months
javascriptnextjsreactinternet
paultran47/latex-cv-with-biblatex
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:254 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 4 months
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