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Bobak Moallemi
www.linkedin.com/in/bmoallemi Economist & Data Scientist | Building something new
(LinkedIn) Berkeley, California, United States

Top Skills Summary

Operations Research
As an applied microeconomist and financial economist by training, I
Applied Economics
work on problems spanning market design, revenue management /
Quantitative Finance
dynamic pricing, causal inference, and machine learning.
Honors-Awards
Economic Graph Challenge Winner
Stanford GSB Graduate Research
Experience
Fellowship
Stealth
Chief Scientist
June 2023 - Present (1 year)
San Francisco Bay Area

Opendoor
Staff Data Scientist
January 2022 - June 2023 (1 year 6 months)
San Francisco Bay Area

Lyft
Senior Research Scientist
July 2018 - December 2021 (3 years 6 months)
San Francisco Bay Area

I was a Research Scientist in Lyft's Marketplace Labs group. Our team brought
scientific and research-based expertise to help solve the most complex
problems at Lyft and the broader transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) industry.
We collaborated with partner teams to explore higher-risk yet higher-reward
problems and to develop transformative solutions:

• Valuation and Dynamic Pricing of Shared-Rides.

Identified key flaw with prior metric used to quantify cost-efficiency of
a Shared-ride, Lyft’s flagship product. Introduced a new metric based
on Shapley values which became the company-wide standard. Led
redesign of Shared-ride customer pricing algorithm end-to-end, from initial
ideation, to impact-sizing via simulation, to model-training, production code
development, to planning marketplace experiments and communicating

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results companywide. Increased profit per Shared-ride by 6%. See US Patent
Publication No. 2021-0035252.

• Synthetic Controls Platform.

Region-split experimentation was previously done on an ad-hoc basis across
Lyft, with scientists duplicating each other’s work and without any accepted set
of best practices.
Recognized this situation and led the development of a fully productionized
region-split platform based on Synthetic Control methods (Syft), used
company-wide to analyze experiments and inform key decisions spanning
pricing strategy, driver and passenger experience, mapping, dispatch, and
marketing. Presented work externally at MIT CoDE and Airbnb.

• Lyft Delivery.
Stepped in as science tech lead for Lyft’s new line of business and
immediately identified and causally quantified a major market design flaw
impacting delivery driver incentives and leading to high levels of fraud.
Planned, developed, and shipped upfront driver pay to remedy the incentive
misalignment, reducing fraud incidence by 70% and increasing profit per
delivery by 12%.

LinkedIn
Visiting Research Scientist
June 2015 - December 2016 (1 year 7 months)
San Francisco Bay Area

Economic Graph Challenge Winner ($25,000; Co-PI: Ryan Shyu). Developed

predictive, data-driven models of user job promotions and exits.

Federal Reserve Board

Senior Research Assistant
August 2011 - August 2013 (2 years 1 month)
Washington D.C.

Risk Analysis Section, Division of Research & Statistics

Using confidential trade repository data for credit default swaps (CDS),
developed software package to monitor exposure of US firms to European
Sovereign Debt Crisis; applied network measures to identify financial
institutions whose failure would most threaten the market’s continued
functioning; measured the impact of counterparty credit risk and centralized
clearing on execution price of CDS contracts. Using high-frequency E-Mini

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S&P500 transaction data, examined the contributions of different classes
of traders (individuals, large institutions, high-frequency traders) to price
discovery, liquidity provision, and realized volatility.

Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Financial Economics · (2013 - 2018)

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Applied Mathematics · (2007 - 2011)

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics · (2007 - 2011)

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