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briacSck/README.md

Briac Sockalingum - Predoctoral Economist

Early-career technologist-economist | Building AI x blockchain products + researching their economic impacts and optimal designs

Python R Stata SQLite LaTeX Power Bi Jupyter Notebook HTML5 Vercel Claude Git Pandas Numpy Scipy Matplotlib Scikit-learn

Currently

  • 🚀 Co-founder & CEO @ YIELD (FinTech software to help SMBs optimize their treasury automatically | Founders Inc Canopy & Sciences Po incubator)
  • 🏗️ Building for public good and technical impact: DeFi yield optimization for emerging countries, empirical AI research tools, decentralized reputation systems ...

Research & Technical Focus

Economics: Causal inference (DiD, event studies) • Digital & Platform economics • Crypto impact & Blockchain use-cases • AI policy impacts • Public economics & inequalities

Tech: Blockchain/DeFi (Web3 & FinTech) • Agentic AI (MCP, RAG, LLM fine-tuning) • Data science • Production systems

Previously

  • 🧪 **Pre-doc researcher & RA ** @ Oxford Business School (LLM-based research workflows for quantitative assessment of management articles' results) & IMT Business School (AI & data centers impacts, causal inference & applied micro)
  • 🚀 Co-founder & COO @ Compas'Sup (agentic AI for EdTech | Sciences Po incubator & STATION F)

Open To

  • Pre-doctoral positions in tech/innovation/public/development economics • AI research residencies
  • PhD programs bridging economics and IT • Entrepreneurship programs

🤝 Let's Connect

Check out my repositories below to dive deeper into my work on digital economics & my journey building impactful tech ⬇️

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  1. Google-AI-overviews-DiD-study Google-AI-overviews-DiD-study Public

    Staggered DiD (Callaway-Sant'Anna) analysis of Google AI Overviews' impact on web traffic (working-paper code, personal contributions)

    Python 1

  2. crypto-producer-theory crypto-producer-theory Public

    Economic modeling of cryptocurrency merchant adoption

    Jupyter Notebook

  3. financial-literacy-wealth-replication financial-literacy-wealth-replication Public

    Replication of Lusardi & Mitchell (2023) Table 3: Financial literacy and household wealth using SCF 2019. Weighted quantile regressions in Stata and R. UC Berkeley ECON 140.

    Stata

  4. Python-SQL-showcase Python-SQL-showcase Public

    Python-SQL portfolio for economics research predoc applications: panel data construction, ETL pipelines, and advanced queries

    Python

  5. LLM-Paper-Methodology-Extraction LLM-Paper-Methodology-Extraction Public

    [Oxford RA Screening Task] LLM-based (multi-agentic) pipeline to extract methodology on a given sample of scientific papers, and analyze the complete methodological set up of regression-based artic…

    Python

  6. DeFi-YIELD-Economics DeFi-YIELD-Economics Public

    Early economic framework for YIELD, a project at crossroads between DeFi and my economics work. This presents an economic analysis of optimal capital allocation across DeFi lending protocols, speci…

    Jupyter Notebook