Gaia Ponti

• Carried out tutoring sessions for coding in R (class with 50 students), delivered in-class presentations of solutions to exams and problem sets, and independently graded student assignments.

• Relevant coursework: Micro- and Macroeconometrics; Macroeconomic Models and Methods; Econometrics and Empirical Economic Research; Data Science and Machine Learning; Economic Policy. • Projects | World Food Programme (WFP) Collaboration: conducted EDA on food security data to identify latent socio-economic correlations; developed visualizations to map complex interdependencies in real-world humanitarian datasets.

• Coursework: Macroeconomics of Income Distribution; Labor Economics; Econometrics. • Activities: SMU Acquatic Sharks (competitive swimming); SMU Muay Thai Team.

• Final grade: 110/110 • Relevant coursework: Corporate Finance; Financial Auditing I & II; Financial Markets and Institutions; Macroeconomics and the World Economy; International Economics; Statistics; Financial Mathematics; Mathematics. • Final Dissertation: “The Rising Phenomenon of Killer Acquisitions and the Case Study Visa-Plaid.”