Resume

General Information

Full Name Samuel Evan Ross
Languages English (Native), French (Proficient)
Citizenship United States

Education

  • 2021 – 2025
    B.S. in Mathematics and Economics
    Haverford College, Haverford, PA
    • GPA: 3.97
    • Major GPAs: 4.0
    • Selected Coursework:
      • Abstract Algebra
      • Advanced Econometrics
      • Advanced Microeconomics
      • Functional Analysis
      • Macroeconomics
      • Machine Learning
      • Measure Theory
      • Multivariate Statistical Analysis
      • Political Economy
      • Real Analysis
    • Athletics: Varsity Cricket Team

Experience

  • Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
    Incoming Summer Analyst, Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
  • Aug 2023 – Present
    Research Assistant for Professor Kenneth S. Rogoff
    Harvard University, Department of Economics, Cambridge, MA
    • US Global Performance Book: Assemble and clean datasets (from BIS, IMF, Refinitiv, World Bank, etc.) in R to create figures for a forthcoming book about the evolution of the US macroeconomy from an international perspective.
  • Jun 2023 – Jan 2024
    Year-round Intern, Stress Testing Research
    Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, DC
    • Corporate Debt Paper: Co-authoring a journal article about the transmission of monetary policy through the corporate loan market. Merged, cleaned, and analyzed several large regulatory datasets (SNC, Y-14Q, Y-9C) using SQL, Stata, and Python. Retained part-time during the academic year to continue this work remotely.
    • CECL Impact Project: Constructed several matched-sample and synthetic controls specifications to study the impact of the CECL accounting standard on bank lending and net allowances, extending a FEDS Note (Loudis et al., 2021).
  • Mar 2022 – Aug 2022
    Research Assistant for Professor Carola Binder
    Haverford College, Department of Economics, Haverford, PA
    • Price Controls Book: Synthesized research and primary sources into passages for a forthcoming book about historical price controls in the United States (*Shock Values*, University of Chicago Press, 2024).
    • Explainer Review: Wrote a review of the pop-econ explainer *Can't we just print more money?* (Patel and Meaning, Bank of England, 2022) that was published in *Central Banking* magazine with my supervisor and a colleague.

Activities

  • Oct 2021 – Present
    Founder & Co-Head
    Haverford Economics Research Club
    • Covid Reopening Extension: Led a team extending Chetty et al. (2023) by investigating sector-based heterogeneity in states' Covid reopening timelines. Built a Python web scraper to crawl NYT archives for reopening data, then used synthetic controls to evaluate the impact of different sectors' reopenings on employment, spending, and business activity.
    • Göttingen Webinar Presentation: Presented the club's replication and extension of Chetty et al. (2023) in a joint University of Göttingen and Institute of New Economic Thinking (Young Scholars Initiative) webinar series in November 2022.
  • Aug 2021 – Present
    Founder & Co-Head
    Haverford Problem Solving Group (Math Club)
    • Putnam Exam Performance: Supported Haverford’s record top-20 placement in the 2021 and 2022 Putnam exams by organizing, advertising, and leading weekly competitive mathematics training events.
    • Accessible Pedagogy: Fostered a diverse and inclusive mathematical community by assembling weekly problem sets that drew questions from various subdisciplines and catered to a range of proficiencies.

Skills and Awards

  • Awards: Class of 1896 Prize in Mathematics (Haverford College), American Mathematical Society Nominee Membership
  • Programming Languages: HTML, Java, LaTeX, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python (i.e., TensorFlow, Keras, sklearn), R, Stata, SQL
  • Tools: Google Workspace, Git, Microsoft Office (i.e., Excel, Powerpoint, Word), Refinitiv, Unix, Tableau, Vim, Zotero